Word: gait
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...literary world, some hunner and forty year efter his first lines appeared in prent. The Faem o' the author o' "the gaping Ayrshire yokels" should gang thunnerin' doon the ages for five hunner year at least. Anither writer chiel, that foonded the city o' Gait, Ontario, and hauds a place in the latest edition o' Wabster's International Dictionary, some 90 year after his daith, was a "gaping Ayrshire yokel," tae. An' Dr. McCosh, President o' Princeton College, Princeton, N. J., was anither. An' sae was Lord Stevenson, famed controller...
...mother, the ample, friendly woman who had been Kitty Dunn, would be perhaps the most conspicuous, not the most distinguished of Houston's unofficial guests. Edith Boiling Gait Wilson, widow of Democracy's last President, held the Wilsonian mantle over the shoulders of the Brown Derby, deciding the dynastic succession. Observer Smith and Observer
Once again a Harvard team, with the odds of experts heavily against it, ventures into the Jungle. It has been said of the CRIMSON team that "No matter how charged with punishments the scroll, no matter even how straight the gait, let the team only beat the pants off Princeton and the season is successful." There is more than honor and a deep sea diving championship at stake here; the CRIMSON team has not lost a game to a college aggregation this season...
Cliff Bricker of Gait, Ontario, marathon runner, insured his legs, knees, feet, and toes last week...
...booksellers might find difficulty in keeping peace with the thirty books that are being published each day Mr. Sterling, even though he knows little of fifteen minute education and has practically ignored the Harvard reading period, declared that he could read 15 or 20 books a day. At this gait he would hit, he was bound to admit, only the higher dirty spots of our modern mound builders...