Word: nethers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Trumbull eleven manipulated all the strings in the nether regions of Soldiers Field late yesterday afternoon, dangling Lowell House at the bottom of a 13 to 0 score...
Between rifle blasts and the snorting of boilers, garrulous grumblings on the part of rifle team president and secretary, Hale and David Knight, are rising from the hot, noisy nether-regions of the Indoor Athletic Building these days. Punctuating these meanings are pleas for University financial and spiritual aid for the much pushed around rifle club...
...Bishop's Wife." The angel's name is Dudley. Just Dudley. No other name. That makes it easy to identify him as an angel, for the audience at least, if not for the worldly characters in the picture, most of whom never suspect that Dudley's mononomenclature suggests a nether background. Here is one example of this strange mental dullness in otherwise apparently intelligent characters. The bishop, it has been established, knows what Dudley is, although he finds the concept a difficult one to accept, despite overwhelming evidence of its truth. He introduces the angel to his wife. "This...
There were other questions, beyond oatmeal, to bother the Scottish M.P.s last week. "Is the President of the Board of Trade aware," asked Hector Hughes, "that in the city of Aberdeen there is a shortage of outsize nether garments, for men and boys over six feet in height...
...What's the difference between nether garments and trousers in Scotland?" asked schoolmasterish Henry Strauss, Tory member for Combined English Universities. "Kilts!" shouted a Socialist backbencher, and the Sassenachs laughed again. But it was the Scots who had the last laugh after all, for the English, who had no kilts to fall back on, were themselves having trouser trouble...