Word: week-ends
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...King impersonates Dascom Dinsmore, an errant remittance man, who has not seen a pretty woman in the two years he has been in Labrador. He is irritably contemplating the rigors of another long winter without female society when his shanty suddenly takes on the atmosphere of a Long Island week-end house party...
...imitation of his famous brother and another all his own. He does well, but any movie-goer who expects a second "Bing" will be disappointed. Everything considered, the bill at the Metropolitan presents a pleasant way to spend an afternoon or evening if you are in Boston over the week-end...
...inhabitants of the island, moreover, failed to see any reason why funds should be raised to fight a disease which is all but unknown here. The Presidential birthday was, therefore, the pretense rather than the motive of the customary week-end fun at swank El Escambron Beach Club and Condado Beer Garden...
Reeding an informal request from University Hall, Tan Sargent, dexterous racquet-wielder of the squash team and intercollegiate champion, will not defend his title in the Intercollegiate Squash Tournament this week-end...
André Maurois, like a week-end guest who hopes to be asked again, is unfailingly gracious about England and the English. This half-loaf appreciation of Dickens is sliced thin, á L'Anglais, buttered on the right side. But U. S. readers who like whole-wheat will raise an eyebrow at the very first slice: "In every English-speaking country Dickens is still the great popular writer." André ' whole case for Dickens is an argumentum ad hominem. Perhaps Dickens had a streak of Pecksniff in his character but, asks Maurois, "Who hasn...