Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Three years ago, hearing that Londoners danced on roller skates, Manager Martin got England's famed roller-skating Ridstones, James & Joan, to tour the U. S. Their spellbinding exhibition of figure skating started America's roller-skating boom. Today most roller skaters, instead of going round & round in the old-fashioned way, do the Chicken Scratch, the Howdy-Do and other "called-out" (square) dances, waltz, tango and fox-trot in pairs. More ambitious skaters learn to do rockers and counters, brackets and loops, hope to be able some day to compete in the annual April tournament...
...suits than the pressure of the more conservative stores. The salesman is such an integral part of the organization that when one changed stores a few months ago, his clientele went along with him. And when another was in the hospital for twelve weeks, his store sold three suits instead of the usual one hundred and fifty. Little conveniences, like fifty-yard line seats to football games, cashing checks, and bailing valuable sinners out of jail, all serve to keep the tailors and their "church school" clientele "a nice congenial group." This "congenial group" motto is the real secret...
Contrary to the customs of previous years, a separate Red Cross drive will not be held this year. Instead, it will be combined with five other charitable institutions, who will each receive one-sixth of the total proceeds...
...lady, alert, peppery Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, founded an organization with the aim of aiding Frenchmen living in Britain (onefourth of the Canadian population is French). Her advice to knitters: "Don't forget French feet are smaller. Knit them size 9½ to 10½ instead of the big socks needed for Canadians...
...undertakes the leading role in a remake of Fairbanks' 1920 classic about a California Robin Hood who made things too hot for a dastard Spanish colonial governor. To pacify the Hays office, the Z-mark is carved only once on real flesh- on a man's chest instead of his forehead. (The Fairbanks version precipitated a nationwide rage for Z-cutting among small fry.) Basil Rathbone furnishes the dueling opposition for Power, Linda Darnell the fond glances...