Word: collarses
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From the English public schools Dr. Peabody borrowed much. Groton boys wear stiff white collars at dinner and blue suits on Sunday. They play "fives," a game vaguely like handball which originated at Eton. They have some say in choosing from their number a senior prefect who, with half a...
In every village compound, among the squalid mud huts, savage priests shouted the liturgy in the obscure language of Geez, slew sheep and cattle for a sacrifice and the warriors drank the hot blood. The old men shouted tall tales of past Ethiopian glories. The chiefs put on their lion...
When Flaxie & Dan tried and failed again, their owner threw down his hat and gave up hope. Then lanky Russell Sando drove out the Statler Farm's former champions. Rock & Tom. Scorning to pick his ground, but hitching where Contractor Adrian's horses had left the load, he...
Judges in the final contest, which 15,000 New Yorkers went to hear and see, were Dr. Spaeth, Alfred Emanuel Smith and Luther Corwin Steward, a Washington folk-song collector. Al Smith may have felt a sympathy with the Blessed Sacrament Lyceum Quartet of Queens which arrived in red, purple...
At 8:30 o'clock in the morning MM. Godin & Chiappe motored out to the big garden of Mme Cotnareaunu, widow of Perfumer François Coty, on the Avenue Raphael. Old-fashioned dueling pistols were loaded with black powder & ball. On the greensward the seconds stepped off 25...