Word: scrape
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Judith, half-gypsy daughter to old "Rogue" Herries, 18th Century Cumberland squire, was a wild thing from her youth up, but she had character. Her wildness got her into many a scrape, led her to marry Georges Paris, an attractive, coldhearted, unscrupulous rascal. Character made her stick to him when he was unfaithful to her, even when the police were after him. Finally Georges went too far: he murdered a man; whereupon the man's old father murdered Georges. Judith became a governess for a while, then went back to the Herries family in Cumberland. She might have married again...
...days shalt thou labor and do all thou art able, And on the seventh-holystone the decks and scrape the cable. -Richard Henry Dana Celebrated in song and story of the English-speaking navies and merchant marine is the holystone, a porous slab of sandstone used as an abrasive for keeping wooden decks snow-white.* In the U. S. Navy the holystone has been used since the Government first built ships. Formerly applied by seamen on hands and knees, holystoning is now performed with long-handled implements, mopwise. Nevertheless, there were always corners where the holystone had to be applied...
Hero Dan Gardiner, Princetonian, is "rich as a louse" but woe comes to him nevertheless. His sweetheart, Lois Miller, whose charm is not clearly indicated, marries another man. Hero Gardiner lies about a drinking scrape, is expelled from the university. After he loafs around home for a while, spending his time with a group of undistinguishable cronies who drink a greal deal and generally do not amount to much. Dan's kindly Uncle Mark is sympathetic when the young man confesses a longing for another summer at Fawn Lake, the resort where, during a previous summer, his love affair with...
Will James has had his zeniths and his nadirs. When still a youngster he helped steal cattle on the quiet and once served a penitentiary sentence therefor. A shooting scrape once put him into a log prison of the Northwest Mounted Police. Once he was in the movies. That, says he, was a tough job. Many were the falls he took, some by order, some not; many the uncomfortable costumes (the worst a suit of armor) in which he fell. During the War he never got overseas, but he had a lot of fun on a horse, after his superior...
Slays for Slaps. A party in the Manhattan boarding house of a Mrs. Mabel McGowan ended in a shooting scrape. Headlined the New York Telegram: LANDLADY SLAYS HOST. Mrs. McGowan sued for $50,000, was denied it last week when the Telegram proved a typographical error had changed "slaps" to "slays...