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...Evelyn, graduated from Oxford, gets betrothed to Lady Middleton's marmoreal daughter Sarah, but when Easter and Basil see the trim life to which he is doomed they clear for home. Puppetstown has become a moldering tomb, Aunt Dicksie a crotchety recluse. She hates to have the children spoil her frigid peace, but warms to them and to life in the end. Puppetstown resounds again with the laughing speech learned from immemorial tradition and the local Blarney Stone. In a style extraordinarily luminous and concise Author Stuart's novel treats of highly-pitched human relations, no less real...
...thinking of that," said the young gentlemen. "You see, I spilled them when I was bringing in the groceries and if I don't hurry the rain will spoil them." Haste was suggested, but was as soon rejected by this watcher of his own iniquity. He sat for a time shrouded in Cathedral silence. He had acquired the fatalism and the inactivity of the twelve-year-old. He had spilled three pounds of Cinnamon balls, salvation lay only in the laps of the far away gods upon Olympus...
Over 15% of a normal "Amos 'n' Andy program is Pepsodent ballyhoo and to cut this down to 5% would clearly diminish, perhaps spoil, the sales value of the program...
Twenty-one times in the course of the hour, the lecturer expressed his regret that time did not permit him to explain various points; he would not--so he said--spoil the students' pleasure of finding out those things for himself, nor would he waste their time...
...Gold Star Mothers the country sent to France. Over there they saw the lovely cemeteries in which lie the dead of the A. E. F. These mothers carried home in their minds beautiful pictures of these well-kept resting places. That is what they should have?we cannot spoil these memories. The War Department has a moral obligation to the Gold Star Mothers, so only those photographs which show the pleasant features of war can be released...