Kings Row Dances Between Two Parties and a Mystery
In a small town, Cassandra Tower and Parris Mitchell spark a social riddle as rival birthday parties test friendships. Dr. Tower’s mysterious work and the tight circle of with the town’s elite add tension while a church moment hints at deeper ties.
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Kings Row
Parris Mitchell
Madame von Elin
Renee
von Fin
Drake McHugh
Randy Monaghan
Cassandra Tower
Vera Lichinsky
Parris
Herr Berdorff
Anna
Madame
Union Street
Thurston St. George
Federal Street
Aberdeen College
Insane Asylum
St. Georges
Sansomes
Curleys
Gordons
Skeffingtons
Hart Sansome
Lucius Curley
Burton County Bank
Gordon
Isaac Skeffington
Ike Skeffington
Miles Jackson
The
Gazette
Skeffington
Marie
Phaeton
Madame von Eln
Sonny
Isaac
Mitchell
Walnut Street
Sissy
Cassandra
Brighton
Tower
Philadelphia
Dr. Tower
Louise
Oys
Cassie
Pearl Houston
Berry Street
Houstons
Houston
Uncle Henry
Louise Gordon
Henry Gordon
Mrs. Gordon
Park
Burton County Nurseries
Presbyterian Church
Mrs. Curley
Madame von Fin
Cassaranda
Mr. Curley
Two Faces of Experience and Wartime Rationing
The author divides life into personal relation skills and hard reality like gravity, noting women gain practical wartime experience. The piece recounts Millie’s guarded youth, later marriage, and the shift to rationing in food and clothing, with soap limits and standard fabrics guiding wartime consumption.
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Millie
Uncle Peter
Britain
Board of Trade
United States
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Ration Schedule in England During 1940
The weekly ration remains near the 1940 schedule. Per week allowances include bacon or ham four ounces sugar eight ounces tea two ounces cheese two ounces preserves one pound per four weeks fats butter and margarine six ounces with up to two ounces butter plus two ounces cooking fats. Unrationed items include bread flour potatoes fresh vegetables fruit coffee cocoa packs sauces pickles fish and offal.
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England
Trespassing on Eternity
Dr Paul Moody president of Middlebury College Vermont tells of a dinner speech lesson. A long winded first speaker bored the audience until the toastmaster rebuked him for trespassing on their time and eternity with excessive talk. Moody notes short speeches are a virtue.
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Paul Moody
Middlebury College
Vermont
Dwight L. Moody
Moody
Quotations on Marriage From Notable Thinkers
A collection of brief maxims on marriage from Shaw Fosdick Dewar Johnson Knowles and Voltaire. Each quote offers a wry view of matrimonial life and human relationships.
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George Bernard Shaw
Harry Emerson Fosdick
Voltaire
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