Word: booting
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...hungry, but hasn't any money, should he plant a garden, steal a pie, work for a meal, or get a permanent job?" "Is Italy shaped like a banana, boot, broom, or sausage?" were other queries...
...society columns of nearly all our daily organs of democratic opinion so eloquently testify. But there cannot be a king without snobbery. Not even the meagerest German princeling, fourth in line of succession to a reline for which no average Iowa farmer would trade his fat acres without boot, could exist a day without it. Taken out of the atmosphere of snobbery, like a fish out of water, he would simply give three gasps, two flops and expire. To talk about a democratic king is to talk the sheerest nonsense. There could no more be a democratic king than...
...Freshman year and four hours a week in the other years. Finally, they will devote three summer vacations to intensive and practical training in summer camps. Then, if their work has been done well, they will have to their credit the regular college degree and army commissions to boot...
...victories of the past, and no less proud defeats. Though the five continents be swallowed up in war, and the Kaiser twist his embattled moustaches a thousand times a day with the fierce conceit of conquest, still football will go on. As long as there is one ball to boot, and one goal line to cross, and two men to meet shoulder against shoulder at the last stand on the fourth down, football will...
...that the tide has turned, in the university and in the secondary school, accumulating evidence proves. No longer are teachers in boys' schools, for example, paid the meager salaries that led Charles Dickens to plead their cause in his portrayal of Mr. Mell, the master of Salem House, whose boots were sent back by the cobbler, with the message that he could not mend them any more because there was not a bit of the original boot left. Christian Science Monitor...