Word: skates
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Skate. In Banff, Alberta, Dr. Pat Costigan got an urgent call while playing hockey, bolted from the ice, delivered a baby girl, swooped back within the hour to help his team...
That only 50 undergraduates out of a total of 5800 can skate and play hockey at the expense and with the facilities of the University is deemed deplorable by a surprisingly large number of students those days, and a brief summing up of the situation is perhaps in order...
...vast if diffused part of the nation's business. In the Northwest they discussed gyppo logging shows. The Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) Vineyard Gazette grumbled about the price of fish: "The market, as we log the doings of last week, is plain lousy-prices dropped like a skate falling into an empty hold. Why? The Lord only knows. But Bay scallops continue to be small and high. . . . Hard up or hard down is the present motto of business...
...submarine Skate, a contorted mass of wreckage...
Like all Trollope's best novels, Popenjoy exists both in and between the lines; like the age in which it was written, there is a smooth, romantic surface on which the most innocent girl may skate without danger, and, just below, the murky waters of worldliness...