Word: lick
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...Gilbert, shrewd, able correspondent of the New York Evening Post. Their belief in his identity was strengthened when earlier this month he used almost identically the same story in a despatch, to his newspaper. Governor Roosevelt was circumstantially placed at last year's Governors' Conference at French Lick, Ind., and in conversation with "a distinguished Middle Western Democrat" (generally supposed to be James Middleton Cox) saying...
...irksome to Oxford men as written surveys are to Vassar girls is "Divvers" an examination in Biblical history and literature which every student is expected to pass during his first year unless he has taken a similar test in preparatory school. Most students cram for a week, hope that lick will carry them through Divvers; but many try it several times before succeeding. To consider abolishing Divvers, the Congregation (an official body) of Oxford met lately in Sheldonian Theatre, debated for 90 minutes. Proposing abolition, a Mr. Parker of Magdalen said that the examination should be given before, not after...
Moving through all this is one remarkable character, a waiter (Edouard La Roche) who is a cross between the Admirable Crichton and a Christian saint. To all emergencies he responds with almost divine calm and good sense, never forgetting his hospitality. As the flames lick up over the roof's parapet he is still offering to bring blankets, wine, hope, dernier confort...
...tell me that a guy who looks bad on four or five pitched balls of the same type, pitched to the same spot, isn't lucky when he socks the same kind of ball into the bleachers. ... If Gabby starts me again, I'll lick...
...never shine.'' His birth was Gargantuan: he weighed 44 pounds, and as soon as he opened his mouth he called for lashings of victuals. He talked brash and he acted uppety, but he got things done. He could lift 500 pounds of cotton at one lick and with one smack sink a nine-inch spike in a whiteoak tie. With women, too, his ways were winning, till he encountered his fatal Julie Anne. Her chronic faithlessness gave John Henry bad attacks of the all-overs, the down-yonders, even made him ponder the meaning of existence...