Word: overgrown
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Cambridge is at last reaching its majority. It has already remained too long an overgrown child wearing Buster Brown collars and knee breeches. A year and a half ago, in fact, measurements were taken for long pants, but now the tailored garment is ready to be worn...
...pattern of a winter suit should be either an overgrown check or an undersized plaid--on the whole, it would be advisable to procure two or three suits, besides extra trousers, of varied styles. The coloring should be warm. Bright reds, blues, oranges, and yellows give a genial effect to a coat-sleeve; and nobody who was not a gentlemen would ever dare to wear anything of the sort. The coat should be either a very loose sack or a very close-fitting cut-away-- there is nothing meaner than a mean between two elegant extremes. The waistcoat should...
...With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry whiskers, hind limbs so rudimentary as to look like a big, muscular tail; broad, flat, forward flippers for swimming and spanking its young. While President Coolidge watched, John...
Dogs, Glands. Diseased glands are responsible for many blue ribbons in dog shows. The Boston bulldog with his round head, short muzzle, short legs, suffers from abnormal thyroid and pituitary glands. In man this condition produces the dwarf; the skulls of dwarf and bulldog are strikingly similar. The kindly, overgrown St. Bernard, with his heavily wrinkled forehead, massive limbs, shows a pathological pituitary gland. The same condition in man produces the enormous heavily boned circus giant. Dr. Charles Rupert Stockard of Cornell University Medical College experimented with some of these pure blooded deformities. Crossing a famous Great Dane sire with...
...company wore dinner coats (black ties). Had each man made, upon the white space below his chin, that series of penstrokes by which he subsists, the dumbest bellhop would have caught the evening's drift. Under the florid, jovial chin of an overgrown urchin chewing a cigar, for example, might have been sketched a domestic scene so provocatively platitudinous that no lettering would have been necessary to interpret it as "Ain't it a grand and glorious feeling?" or "When a feller needs a friend...