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Alan opened one eye and stared balefully at the skinny figure of Judy Collier. "I've finished my job, that's how come. And I've been trying to get a little rest. Any objections?" She held up her hands and looked around the big recreation room nervously. "Okay, don't shoot. Where's that animal of yours?" "Rat? Don't worry about him. He's in my cabin, chewing his nibbling-stick.
Jane had observed signs of objection on Judith's good-humored face. "All right," yielded Judith. "Go ahead. I'll give a blow-out when my check comes. It'll be here next week." "We'll invite Norma, Dorothy, Adrienne, Ethel, Mary, Christine Ellis, Barbara Temple, and oh, yes Alicia Reynolds. We mustn't forget Alicia." "Yes, she needs a little recreation," grinned Judith.
I flatter myself on being able to do it with perfect French expressiveness. I caught, to my satisfaction, an angry gleam in his eye. "Do you mean to say, Monsieur, that I play for more than recreation?" "How dare I say anything, Monsieur. But Madame is prejudiced against the Cercle Africain. For a bachelor there is little to be said against it but for a married man you seize the point?" said I.
The young folks looked up inquiringly as Mr and Mrs Asplin entered the room, for the hour after tea was set apart for recreation, and the elders were usually only too glad to remain in their own quiet little sanctum. Oswald, the gallant, sprang to his feet and brought forward a chair for Mrs Asplin, but she waved him aside, and broke impetuously into words. "Children! we have news for you.
If he is a true pastor, he will strive to keep the boys pure through expert instruction to parents, through personal advice, through wholesome activity and recreation, through courses on sexual hygiene in the public schools, through war on indecency in billboard, dance, and theater, through absolute chastity of speech, and, in general, through an ideal of life and service which shall lift the boys' ambitions out of the low and unhealthy levels of sense gratification.
We our firm have erected several philanthropic institutions of learning and recreation, but none precisely on this order. Miss Lawton has shown us the plans of this present club and we consider the arrangement of the dormitories particularly ingenious, with regard to economy of space and the requisite sunlight and air." "Oh, yes!"
Then the mock consul, a slush-plastered deck-sweep, drew out a soiled fragment of paper and proceeded to read, laboriously: "To His Imperial Majesty, Alexander II., Emperor of Russia: "We are a handful of private citizens of America, traveling simply for recreation, and unostentatiously, as becomes our unofficial state and therefore, we have no excuse to tender for presenting ourselves before your Majesty "
The recreation rooms are a paying investment both to the hospital and to the State.
A crowd of the sort described constitutes one type of the incomplete group. It is a chance assembly, moved by a common purpose but coalescing only temporarily, guided by elemental impulses, and readily breaking up without permanent achievement other than obtaining the recreation sought.
Attacks in Parliaments, in assemblies, in the press, in the pulpit, in the street, on journeys for example, their exclusion from certain hotels even in places of recreation, become daily more numerous. The forms of persecutions varying according to the countries and social circles in which they occur.
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