His year-end taxes were supposed to be postmarked by December 30.

A short time afterward at the opera Gerald dragged him into a parterre to say something amiable to one of the amiable débutante Craig girls—and Selwyn found himself again facing Alixe.

[…] before the lower school scugs got there, and pitched it in at Acropolis.

Such studies are only now beginning in bioarcheology but important insights into modern diseases are likely to be gleaned from analyses of bioarcheological specimens.