Word: coate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Time, election day. Slightly exhilarated individual in front of the city hall vainly trying to put on his coat. Sympathizing passer by: "You're putting the right arm into the left sleeve." Exhilarated individual: "That's all right, I - I'm le - left handed." - [Record...
...account of the raw and chilly weather the number of spectators at the lacrosse game yesterday was much smaller than otherwise it would have been. A drizzling rain set in early, and coat-collars were turned up and umbrellas called into use. The game, however, in spite of the discomforts, was the best we have seen at Harvard...
Teacher: "Class in Geography, stand up. What is a strait?" Small boy (next to the foot): "A strait beats two pairs, three of a kind, and generally takes the pot-unless some fellow happens to have a cold deck slipped up his coat sleeve." Teacher: "Let us pray...
...discovered by Dr. Schliemann with the original ark there can be no doubt, inasmuch as the name "Ark" is still on her stern in raised gilt letters. There was also found entangled with a ring-bolt on her starboard side, close to her "Plimsoll's mark," a rubber watch coat with Noah's name on the inside of the collar. Dr. Schliemann is naturally very proud of his discovery, and he is so much encouraged by it that he is seriously thinking of discovering the Garden with the remains of the original serpent, together with Adam's lawn-mower...
Below is a petition sent to the faculty in 1902 by Miss Winnie Verdantique. It is written - the petition, not Miss Verdantique - on the daintiest kind of note paper with the coat-of-arms of the Green family impressed at the top. For Green pere, you must know, once kept a grocery, "but arter the war he had went on the street" where he was known among his set as "old Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms...