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...failed to make up cuts because of sickness or injury. Yet there are several cases of girls who repeated one or more entire quarters of gym because they spent the wrong days in the Radcliffe Health Center. A few bad breaks can keep a girl on the playing-fields till she gets her diploma...
...London printer named Samuel Richardson helped change the course of literary history by writing that forerunner of the modern novel, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded. Fashionable London ladies wept till the rouge ran about Serving Maid Pamela Andrews' trials at the hands of her lecherous master, and marveled at the way she held him at bay with moral philosophy or (since he was prepared to go to any lengths of force) by dropping off into swoons that rendered her cold and stiff. Everyone sighed with relief when the repulsed rapist broke down and proposed marriage to Pamela-who of course...
...Sleep Till Noon" is far inferior to the author's earlier works. The plot, or rather the gimmick to which the sequence of events is tenuously affixed, is an imbecile's effort to follow the advice of his father: "'Get rich, boy,' he would say, filling his corncob pipe with cigarette buts I had had collected for him during the day. 'Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw...
...young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
...visit should not weary him. He is not only an indefatigable party-thrower but a devoted partygoer. At a state ball during his visit to Rio two years ago, he made the gesture of leaving with President Dutra at midnight, then returned, removed his presidential sash, and sambaed till dawn...