Word: panting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copy of Treasure Island, whose author, one Stevenson, Higbie could not recall among the illustrious company-Cicero, Seneca, Theocritus, Tibullus, sweet Petronius-in whose service his years had been passed. Disrobing that night, with Treasure Island open on the dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire...
...crocodile at home Can beat an elephant; But if he goes abroad A dog can make him pant...
Brines recently advertised in the CRIMSON. "Tuxedo Coat and Pant $45.00." Of course if you are used to it, one pant may be well enough within the family circle where such little peculiarities are readily pardoned; but there are times when the second pant is desirable, not to say indispensable, even for semi-formal wear. It adds so much to one's sense of security, especially among strangers, to know that one pant is secure and unshakable on the right leg, and that the other pant occupies an impregnable position on the left. Beau Leggs
...artists of the two staffs are not all the same men but they are the same sort of men. An endless parade of enchanting creatures appears on the covers ? Harrison Fisher girls, W. T. Benda girls; an endless company of interestingly dressed and undressed lovers and haters pant, clutch, embrace, struggle, strike, stare, pose or sit pensive and forlorn...
...Fate pointed the path and the country lost a Chief-Justice but found a President." When proposing to Miss Goodhue "he gently spread a kerchief upon the carpeted floor on Maple Street. With characteristic foresight even then he sought to protect his right pant, for trousers were not in those days worn in Burlington, as he knelt before his "ideal." "The family might with some reason adopt as its crest the Cal-la Lily." (This is one of the many "wise cracks" after the manner of Will Rogers that Mr. Washburn thought good enough to center in italics...