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...customary in those days (until the practice was abolished in the 1860s) for boys leaving Eton to slip ?10 or ?15 to the headmaster. But seniors deemed Most Likely to Succeed were invited to give portraits of themselves instead...
There were lots of terrific new buildings and super-highways, and several million more automobiles than when I went away. But I felt that if no one were looking I could easily slip back into the life I was leading in 1938 and pick up the threads as though I had never left...
Kirkland's hockey team had little trouble in downing a slip-shod Leverett squad yesterday morning, 6 to 2. The game was played at the Boston Skating Club...
...Knife Slip? It is chiefly Dr. Varga's story. He is ship's doctor of the Ceylon Star, a man who finds the sea a sanctuary and goes ashore as little as possible. Varga's trouble begins when the governor of Port Aarif, a lecherous old tyrant named El Bekkaa, comes aboard and insists that he be treated for an ailment that turns out, on diagnosis, to be cancer...
...escaping his duty; Dr. Varga decides to operate. But he finds himself increasingly distracted by: 1) Pamela Vaughan, the good-looking nurse from the British hospital in Port Aarif, and 2) a whole array of El Bekkaa's subjects, who urge him to let his knife slip during the operation...