PHRASES OFTEN MET – III:
bourgeois (Fr.) – a citizen of the trading class. carte blanche (Fr.) – unconditional terms. cat’s paw – the tool of another, medium for dirty work. chapeau (Fr.) – hat. causa sine qua non (Lat.) – an indispensable cause.
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Coincidences. I cancelled my engagement with Va. Bates. Would not make a date with George because of it. John said he could not go. Went to Ave. with Mother. Stopped in drug story to escape rain. George and Paul! Oh what sent you in, John? What a strange meeting, George, Paul, John, Mother, and I. Three fine boys. The bitterest pills to swallow was coming home with Paul and having John there. Still, better be Paul than George – with the car! How you have insisted that I tell Daddy of our hike. I admire you for it! Mother’s advice is not to tell him until it is over.
PHRASES OFTEN MET – III: bourgeois (Fr.) – a citizen of the trading class. carte blanche (Fr.) – unconditional terms. cat’s paw – the tool of another, medium for dirty work. chapeau (Fr.) – hat. causa sine qua non (Lat.) – an indispensable cause.
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ContextThis is the journal of Virginia Lee Scott, my grandmother, written when she was seventeen and first dating my grandfather, John Arnold Wilson. It's a dairy published by Media Drug Stores and includes space for two entries per day, with facts about the era printed at the bottom, which I have included in italics. Following, 1928, is the journal of John Arnold Wilson, my grandfather, at age nineteen and in love with my grandmother, followed by my grandmother's journal in 1931. Archives
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