Word: bosomed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Those wishing to have shirts made to order will do well to examine our sample shirt made from the muslin of N. Y. Mills and the bosom 2300 Linen, 6 for $9.00 and 6 for $12.00. We guarantee to have the best laundry in the city, as we have our own laundry. Our well known steam naphtha process for cleansing clothes is ne plus ultra. Repairing and pressing done in the best manner, as we always keep first class help. We keep constantly on hand the latest style of E. & W. collars and cuffs. Dress and evening ties, in lawn...
...recess, by allowing cuts on the two succeeding days, meets with the heartfelt gratitude of the men thus benefitted. There is some consideration shown in this for those who do not live within horse-car distances of the college and who do not have opportunities of fleeing to the bosom of their families every few days. That a large number of men are compelled by their home ties to break the regulations of the faulty ought to bring that body to change its position on this question. Two more days mean hardly more than three or four recitations...
...approval in these days of gentle manners was considered an unpardonable breach of etiquette and decorum. But the players - a student of 1885 would not have recognized the brawny athletes of his day in these aesthetic youths. Each player wore a dress coat of spotless black, a shirt whose bosom glistened with the starch of Brines' Troy Laundry, knickerbockers of the most approved Oscar Wilde pattern, and in his hand carried a crush hat. The two sides were distinguished by a bit of ribbon in the button-hole of each man; the Yale men as of old, wore light blue...
...trying to get the ball, slipped and fell, tearing a serious rent in his knickerbockers, which necessitated his withdrawal from the field and the filling of his place with a substitute. The other accident happened to a Harvard man, who, in some way smutched his Troy-laundried shirk bosom, obliging him to retire to the gymnasium in order to make a change. These were the only serious accidents of the game. The feature of the game was a remarkable play by the Yale endrush, who, catching the ball with skill which would have made Nausicaa and her maids turn green...
...page or two of something or other. Just what it is doesn't matter. The main object is to have some freshly written pages on the table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily unbuttons his coat, and at a favorable moment draws his "cribbed" papers from his bosom and pushes them in among the mass of manuscript before him. When this is done the rest of his task is easy. He picks up the list of questions and with the aid of his cribs answers such of them as he can, and when the examination is ended hands...