Word: ragamuffins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Skippy cries bitterly at the end of the book. More cheerful to contemplate are Skippyisms from the early, ragamuffin chapters. Samples...
Sparrows. Mary Pickford is back in one of her twelve-year-old ragamuffin roles. This time she is little "Mama Mollie," that maternal wisp of a girl who battles for a tribe of smudgy-faced, curly-haired, innocent-eyed orphans against the cruelty of one Grimes, keeper of a baby farm in ' the swampy southlands. Mr. Grimes has a half-witted wife, and belongs to the Charles Dickens-school of characters...
...crimes had Dr. Straton witnessed on a sunny morning while riding through the streets of Chicago. This statement was too much for some of the citizens of that fantastic city who averred that Dr. Straton must have come upon a family argument, or mistaken the antics of some street ragamuffin for a crime. It was too much for the Chicago Evening Post, which promptly offered the Baptist preacherman $100 if he could definitely establish the date and location of the crimes he had observed. Replied Dr. Straton...