Word: coate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tries his utmost to achieve glory and victory for his side. The game consists in alternately running, hurling a wooden ball, and the so-called "base," which is a heavy block of wood, covered with leather. The chief player is obliged to wear a sort of fencing mask and coat of armor to protect him from this "base," which is flung at him with great violence. In one picture can be seen how the finest runner of the Chicagos managed, although he stumbled, to lay hold of the "base" and thus to get possession of it." (The player in question...
...toasts and numberless bottles of champagne. Herein the German student shows how superior is his mind to that of our college man who sits up all night with nothing to cheer him but a cup of cold coffee and a wet cloth around his aching head. Arrayed in dress coat and white gloves, the candidate, followed by several of his friends, appears before the august assembly of professors. After an interchange of civilities in Latin and profound reverential bows, the student is invited to read his thesis. Suddenly one of his friends will jump up and express his doubts...
...will not be very noticeable, it is often a fact that they tear it open and pour wine into it. After a student has fought a certain fixed number of duels (some ten or twelve), he receives a band of ribbon, which he wears across his breast, under his coat; upon receipt of his first band he is free from all fighting, unless he desires it, but it is a rare case that a student stops with one band, but often fights till he gains four of five. Although this fighting is against the law, the police take little notice...
...heard; for such an undignified manifestation of 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...
...corner and every cranny without success, and finally fearing that I might be suspected of being a Socialist, I roused my courage, walked up to a desk and asked very politely where I could find a catalogue. The mighty man, sitting behind the desk, tightly fitted into a military coat, raised his head, looked at me sharply, smiled haughtily, and informed me that the catalogue was reserved for the private use of the librarian! "But," said I, "you must have a card-catalogue for reference, have you not?" He took it as an insult, and I made the best...