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...publisher's wife to surrender the husband because she is really in love with him, and he believes himself to be in the same condition. One feels it would be much easier to doff the chain of virtue which Miss Inescort wears so self-consciously and skip off with the publisher, instead of being so deadly moody and moral about it all. Serious women are apt to be irritating anyway. Secretly one admires people who are so fearlessly frank, but when one sees them in action, they look silly...
...standard'' and towards "the habits of better middle class speech." The English teachers said that they "believe, of course, in the necessity for emphasizing the correction of unmistakable errors-for which there should now be more time." In other words, in correcting themes and essays they could skip the small frequent errors which children hear at home and will hear all their "better middle class" lives. Some usages now viewed by 6,000 U. S. teachers as permissible: Who are you looking for? Invite whoever you wish. None are expected. Everyone was here but they all went home...
Duranty, was that it "brought forth three resolutions to skip like mice across the pages of the newspaper Pravda" (Truth). The three resolutions "contain nothing new. . . . The fundamental stumbling block to Soviet progress today is the food shortage of which the resolutions say nothing. The shortage is causing neither famine nor hunger but it is a universal shortage...
...bear eugenic, fatherless progeny. Others are a lady murderess, a psychopath, an Italian woman, a mother of six-blessedly quiet and collected about the whole business-a malingerer who wants the relief of an abortion. The affairs of this gallery of victims to nature run into each other, bump, skip and leap across two hours of pitiless, often nervously gay drama which should give a childless husband pause, possibly make him a little...
...proper frame of mind to legislate today. I think it would do us all good to have an opportunity to cool off and to think." Thereupon at his suggestion the House adjourned, laying the tax bill aside for three full days. Also at his suggestion it was agreed to skip 200 pages forward through the measure and have a showdown vote on the sales tax provision early this week...