Word: drag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sure. Great. Where is he? In jail. Great. Why? Because he murdered. Swell. His father gets married. Do they drag the story out again for me-FIEND'S FATHER FINDS MATE...
...future generations of Tait undergraduates will be able to hold up their heads before the world, and everybody marries in Junior year. George Olsen's band makes the music?in the pit and on the stage. Zelma O'Neal does an educated black bottom, called the campus drag, which explains why some fellows will never, never leave Tait...
...granted an interview yesterday to the CRIMSON, back-stage, before the matinee performance at the Wilbur. Discussing the particular phase of the terpsichorean art in which she excells, Mary Jane remarked that the public has a decided preference for slapstick dancing. "The audience delights in the 'knock down and drag out' burlesque dance, and such a number in the repertory of a professional dancer, means more applause and more money. However, one pays fully for both. The audience cannot appreciate the risks that one has to take to achieve funny and ridiculous positions. In making my curtain calls with...
...reproved him, and then a multitude would gather around me. I would then begin to speak to them from a text of the Scripture, and would continue to speak as long as there was anyone to hear. Then the policeman would lay hold upon me, and drag me off to the police office, and my wife would get me out, and I would begin to preach again as if nothing had happened. Altogether I was nine or ten times in prison for preaching the gospel in Edinburgh...
DIVOTS-P. G. Wodehouse-Dorem ($2.50). The Oldest Member still sits by the first tee watching people drive off and remembering- remembering so voluminously that he has to attach himself to his victims' coattails and drag them down to get an audience. Glad to say, the reader needs dragging down less than ever. The sharp sound of splitting wood and the dejected back of the vicar plodding homeward remind the Oldest Member of young Chester Meredith, ah yes, poor chap. . . . and so he relates how Chester came within a chip shot of not crashing the course record, simply through...