Word: hoss
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...from Maine: harrse, larf. Bostonian: hoss, lough. Texan: hawse, lawf...
...Lampoon prose is uneven. It is probably an inevitable failure, but nevertheless a fact. Just-So Stories for Little Sots makes no pretense of doing more than riding the pun pretty hard, and comes off a winner. Little Peggy and the Old Album mounts a spirited hoss, which does well enough for the first lap, but he hasn't much wind...
...Lockwood 3L., F. M. Shea 3L., M. H. Forst 3L., E. L. Hunt 3L., O. G. Hoss 3L., and Walker Lewis 3L., will compose the thirll year Law team...
...They gave me some clay," he said, "and some flowers, and they told me to model the flowers. Well, li'l flowers are all right but Ah ain't got no interest in flowers, so Ah took mah clay home and made me a hoss, and ever since they been lettin' me make hosses...
Student Wheeler of the Cleveland Art School was virtually graduated the same day he matriculated. When they saw his first "hoss," his instructors recognized that he possessed instinctively, and could execute, most of the knowledge they could impart in a lifetime. With no model other than mental images of his favorite pony, "Morgan," and a long-legged, lean-jawed man in a gallon hat and leather chaparajos he worked up models full of tense horse-and-man action in which every muscle, strap and stretch of skin strained perfectly or lay in lifelike ease. So thoroughly did he know what...