Word: selective
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Aiken is much favored by Eastern socialites, the school attracted many a notable daughter, fell into the familiar pattern of select schools, emulating notably Virginia's Foxcroft. There are hockey and lacrosse; horses may be brought to Fermata or hired there; able girls go drag hunting. But Fermata is not scholastically distinguished. Possibly it did not care to be; between 1923 and 1927 only three girls took College Board examinations...
...discuss the rules, the mimeograph at Smith headquarters reeled out Hague's blast. Excerpts: "Governor Roosevelt, if nominated, has no chance of winning in November. He cannot carry a single State east of the Mississippi. . . . The Democratic party has a golden opportunity but for the party to select the weakest man cannot bring success. Governor Roosevelt has utterly failed in his last two attempts to sell himself to the people. There is a wealth of material before the convention. . . . Why consider the one man who is weakest in the eyes of the rank and file...
...more bank-conscious. During the preceding three days, 22 outlying banks had closed their doors. Into the Loop, stronghold of Chicago finance, marched a small army of worried depositors, some of them foreigners, most of them poor, practically all of them owners of small savings accounts. They seemed to select no particular bank for their activities. For two days withdrawals were heavy. The largest Loop houses, Continental Illinois Bank & Trust Co. and First National Bank, felt the brunt of the army's largest attack...
Wehle, set out among the art galleries to select a half-dozen U. S. painters. They must be i) not too advanced for the Board of Trustees' cautious taste, 2) advanced enough to disarm newspaper accusations of over-caution, 3) sponsored by the right art dealers. Art dealers are not supposed to bid against a museum, but they have broken the rule in the past few years. Hence the Metropolitan is not friendly toward dealers, except two classes: the dignified old dealers like Macbeth and the very young, radical galleries not likely to want the same pictures...
Life for Linda becomes fuller, but less heavenly. Her first love Rose, the maid-of-all-work, gets into trouble with some man, goes away. The new maid Hester dislikes Linda, infatuates Stephen, is infatuated herself by David. At an apple-christening, when girls select their lads, Hester openly chooses David, but he turns her down. Jealous, Stephen goes off to Wildwick, on the sea, makes love to Nan, a barmaid there. Linda often goes to Wildwick too. Before she knows it she is in love with Garry, a fisherboy. The outcome of these perturbations is that Stephen marries...