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...Handling." A refinement of the parcel post was lately introduced. For 25c extra, parcels for either urban or rural delivery can be specially stamped, marked "special handling," and assured of receiving the same treatment as letters. "Special Handling" parcels are kept out of the sacks containing ordinary parcels; they skip the terminals and are expedited in the railway mail cars...
...Crossing this line from east to west, travelers "skip a day." Should they cross at dinner time, for example, they would find themselves supping their soup on Sunday, sipping their coffee on Monday. Crossing from west to east is equally strange. If, on a Monday, the traveler regrets not having said his Sunday prayers the day before, he will have a chance to make amends. The same Sunday will return to him, holy as ever...
...last month little scented breezes have some skipping over the Charles from the rapidly-growing-greener baseball diamond across the Charles. Skippity-skip they have passed across Mt. Auburn Street, have dared the traffic of Massachusetts Avenue and have penetrated into the gloomiest depths of Widener Library's dusty stacks. And during the past week one board walk after another has melted away from the yard before the warm Spring...
From the last verse of ECCLESIASTES to the first of the SONG OF SOLOMON is but an eye-skip across the page. Stern Puritans used to say that Solomon's SONG OF SONGS is a book which Christians had better whistle than recite...
...domains of the desperate distillers bearing with them the priestly emoluments of a fantastic religious cult; there to prattle assorted mysticisms garnered from better established sects; to work the mountaineers into a frenzy that will persuade them to donate money for the building of a church; then to skip the hills and return to the city bootleggers, with the church fund. Little did they reck that Red Belwyn (Margaret Lawrence), beautiful crookess of the gang, would discover LOVE through the burly person of Devil Ace Gilson (Louis Bennison), head of the Southern Gentlemen's Association of Moonshiners...