{"id":837,"date":"2009-08-30T00:55:21","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T04:55:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=837"},"modified":"2009-08-30T00:55:21","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T04:55:21","slug":"today-in-the-frye-diaries-30-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2009\/08\/30\/today-in-the-frye-diaries-30-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in the Frye Diaries, 30 August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-838\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/Flag-196x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flag\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/Flag-196x300.jpg 196w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2009\/08\/Flag.jpg 327w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1942<\/span><\/strong>: The draft\u00a0comes\u00a0close to home, worrying\u00a0Frye&#8217;s brother-in-law, Roy Kemp:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[89] Out to Fulton Ave., finding Roy [Kemp] very gloomy about the draft.\u00a0The draft is getting rather horrible, with this hypocritical pretence that they&#8217;re only calling &#8220;single&#8221; men, including all men married since 1940 who now have businesses &amp; small children coming along. Our three noisy female neighbors are getting it: one husband in the army, one in the air force, one category E with a game knee expecting to be examined and shoved in.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">1950<\/span><\/strong>: One last day tour with Helen and Ruth Jenking as the summer comes to an end:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[584] We drove around Portland, which is a largish town about Lowell&#8217;s size &amp; evidently attempts to dedicate itself to Longfellow, but looks tough. We make a half-hearted attempt to find the local museum &#8212; Ruth is very conscientious about such things but we had no desire whatever to be instructed by Portland. So we said goodbye to Ruth in\u00a0a very hole-in-the-corner sort of way, as she was wriggling out of the wrong end of a one-way street. We have had some wonderful times with Ruth this summer, &amp; hated to see them end. Helen has a theory that groups of three don&#8217;t work out properly, but Ruth has destroyed that theory.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Tomorrow: women during wartime; &#8220;Frye is God&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1942: The draft\u00a0comes\u00a0close to home, worrying\u00a0Frye&#8217;s brother-in-law, Roy Kemp: [89] Out to Fulton Ave., finding Roy [Kemp] very gloomy about the draft.\u00a0The draft is getting rather horrible, with this hypocritical pretence that they&#8217;re only calling &#8220;single&#8221; men, including all men married since 1940 who now have businesses &amp; small children coming along. 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