Word: skips
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story jumps back to 1700, shows the original Orrange Oakes building the house, living in it in ancestral splendor. Then you skip to 1890. Judith Oakes, last of her clan, is an embittered spinster, mistress of a decrepit estate. The old settlers are vanishing, the Poles are coming in. When Judith discovers that her niece has married the Polack hired man she dies of a stroke. When Death comes for his parents, Orrange Olszak struggles on with the farm. The story comes down to the present again. The Baldwins have arrived at just the right time : Orrange was beginning...
...Washington the Mills family lives in a big house on 18th Street rented from Walter Evans Edge, the asparagus-loving U. S. Ambassador to France. Before breakfast each morning to the house comes H. C. Langmak, physical trainer, to box, skip rope, do setting up exercises with Mr. Mills before he hustles away to his office by 9:15 a. m. In slack times the Undersecretary slips out to Burning Tree Club where he plays an 85-10-90 game of golf. In Manhattan the Mills home is just off Fifth Avenue on 6gth Street. There is also a Newport...
Librarians observe and report readers' tastes. Boys and girls read Lorna Doone; but the girls skip all the fighting, the boys all the lovemaking. Some enter their 'teens hand in hand with Louisa May Alcott, leave them arm in arm with G. B. Shaw. A librarian may fix his attention on special cases: prisons, for example. Girls in correctional institutions do not read so much as boys. They are "ignorant and sophisticated, pathetically childish, wary, scornful and suspicious." They should be given stories written for adults of meagre intelligence, especially those of girls who rise above unfortunate surroundings...
...train drew in, but before it stopped, Her Majesty leaped from the step of her salon car as lightly as a girl, rushed at King Carol who tried to take and kiss her hand, swept him into her arms, hugged and kissed him thrice. With a gay skip Crown Prince (previously King) Mihai rushed at "Granny''! Prince Nicholas kissed his mother's hand. So did all the other great dignitaries present except one. He, an imposingly robed and snowy-haired old man, accepted Her Majesty's homage and imparted his apostolic benedictions. Then, attended by a retinue of orthodox priests...
Charleston, leisurely, unprogressive, socially high-headed, remains today an antique among U. S. cities. The Atlantic Coast Line's best Florida trains skip Charleston; likewise Clyde Steamship Co.'s New York-Florida express boats. Its business men lunch at 2:30, return to work at 4, if at all. Many contend, visitors as well as citizens, that it is the most civilized city...