Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week a man sat on an Indiana front porch, stuck his thumbs in his waistcoat as is his habit, put his straw hat on the back of his head. Grey-mustachioed, wrinkle-eyed Tom Taggart, owner of French Lick Springs and Democratic boss of Indiana meditated...
Last week able Jeffersonian Taggart could not decide whether or not to sue. Onetime waiter and still professional politician, yes; professional gambler, no. So he sat on his Indiana front porch, rocked...
George V, R. I.: "My importance as sovereign and arbiter elegantarium was emphasized again last week when the press of the world took front page notice of the fact that I was seen in Scotland wearing my trousers creased down the front instead of at the side as is my usual wont. Speculation is rife as to whether I will resume my side creases on returning to London...
...What sovereign, who usually creases his trousers down the side, creased them down the front last week...
Doubling around a wisp of fence, into the stretch at Belmont came a flying clot of horses. People in the Grand Stand scrambed up on the backs of the ramped benches; nonchalance deserted the idlers in front of the Turf Club; they shouted a name that shook itself out like a battle-banner in the grey autumnal air: "Crusader." He-Man O'War's bravest son, best three-year old of the year-was in front. At one flank humped a dark witch-rabbity horse named Mars; at the other a little brown three-year old, William Ziegler...