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...dislike dirt. There is something military in his carriage and something pugilistic in his precise and vigorous face. He is also one of those men on whose clear and fine skin soap and water seem to produce a sheen or a glow, such as the manufacturers of a boot polish assure the world is a pedal consequence of using their particular cream. He stands very upright and square-shouldered, with a rather commanding tilt to his head, and a look in his eyes, when he is opposed, which is quick with challenge...
...square as a dice, my skin is red, tinged with yellow; I am beginning to go grey and have pepper-and-salt tresses; there are wrinkles on my forehead and round my eyes, my nose is as crooked as it always was, and is pitted with smallpox to boot; as are also my cheeks, which are pendulous with large jaws and jagged teeth. My mouth is changed, too, having become larger and wrinkled at the corners. Behold what a beautiful object I am..." To be sure this was written when she was 46 years...
Patrons of American theatres have seldom been cursed with the plague of usher-tipping; that particular institution, very fortunately, is wholly French. But there are barbers in America, and hat-check girls, and boot-blacks, and waiters, and a whole host of black-eyed banditti whose entire stock in trade is a hypnotic countenance and an irritated palm. If Mr. Van Dyke can only find the opportunity and the strength of character to extend his magnificent principle to take in all these special cases, his claim to the everlasting gratitude of the down-trodden bourgeois will be assured...
Three-base hit, Mumby. Sacrifice hits, Bennelt, Zarakov, de Becker, Randall, Dudley. Stolen base, McClellan. Left on bases, Harvard 7, Andover 10. Struck out, by Booth 3, by Smith 4, by Shoop 9. Bases on balls, off Boot 4, by Shoop 9. Bases on balls, off Boot 2, off Smith 4. Double play, Zarakov to Ullman. Passed balls, Dudley...
...cent a point bridge games. Gradually his source of supply failed, and he turned his activities to the highly remunerative task of scientifically milking Harvard Square merchants. That he was a plausible young man is evidenced by his running up a $257 bill on M. P. Toohy, a custom boot maker on Boylston Street, and one almost as large at August...