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“Meadeville was a suburban town of the highest class. It was made up of plutocrats, prigs, good people, snobs, mean people, new-rich, new-poor.” Perhaps William Manning Skinner was one of the “mean people,” for he set the whole town by the ears in a sensational way. He knew how human they all were, how they dreaded, most of all, not to be in the height of fashion and not to do what the “best people” did. So he set the ball a-rolling that was to change the riot of extravagance in vogue among the newly-rich to a veritable riot of simple living. And how he and his good wife, Honey, chuckled over it all!
“Not as amusing as the earlier ‘Skinner’ stories.”
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“The little book is a reservoir of bubbling humor, carrying with it a lesson well worth heeding in these days.”
+ N Y Times 25:302 Je 6 ’20 550w
“A genuinely funny story.”
+ Springf’d Republican p13a Ap 25 ’20 260w
DODGE, LOUIS. Whispers. *$1.75 Scribner