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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...
Louise Randall (Rosalind Russell), a woman energetically eager to skate across the thin ice of feminine emancipation, was too much for her old-fashioned first husband (Donald Woods). When the "Recession" of 1921 lost him his job and got her one, he left her for another woman, telling her, on his way out: "If I died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation...