Word: skim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very well for the Back Bay hostesses and for the final clubs, but it just about ruins the House Plan. President Lowell has proposed, but the Tatler has disposed. The American Sketch has become a separator in the dairy of Boston's finest, most contented families. The skim milk has ben bottled up with a label, "Use only for balls." To the casual observer it is obvious that Audacious did not consult the Dean's List: he preferred to get hot over the Social Register...
Hunter Siemel, the man who kills jaguars with a bayonet, has devised a new method for capturing the giant anaconda boa constrictor. These monsters live in swamp pools which the natives skim and will not talk about except to mutter, "sucuri," their name for the anaconda. In the cold, dry season, anacondas sometimes slip out of pools to bask in the sun. Hunter Siemel's plan is to get between his snake and the water, put it on the defensive. Other men will surround it on the land side. Each man will be equipped with a long pole with...