Word: parchesi
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...women, first bestrode huge, high wheels with little saddles on them-'bicycles' they were called-and went 'scorching' along past the phaetons and runabouts and sulkies and dogcarts and victorias to the mingled amusement and admiration of the people who confined their sporting activities to parchesi, crokinole, the schottische and 'Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability...
...prairie editors who quizzed him on baptism and similar subjects. No religio-infantile authority, Mr. Jardine shifted the conversation to a region where he felt at home-farming, and even then delivered no farm relief oration, but, on the contrary, brought agriculture down to a game as simple as parchesi...
...which overlooks the field, and from which every play can be seen as clearly as if you were sitting on a slab of cement you had paid three dollars for. So the two camps-the purseproud and the gay-waved flags at each other, while down on the green parchesi-board the two teams wavered up and down until Washington...
...rather difficult to comment on Mr. Vanderlip's interesting statement that college journalism is the best extra-curriculum activity, except to point out that in his enthusiasm he has perhaps forgotten some of its drawbacks. For it must of necessity lag behind parchesi in the development of fighting qualities, and its training is apt to make a young man totally unfit to write triolets or sing to anything but a bassoon. Perhaps the only thing an undergraduate does learn from it is not to take himself seriously for he has great opportunity to see how flippantly everyone else takes...
...catched it and run with it. The usual procedure in football as I have come to understand it is for a defensive full back to wait for a kick to start comeing and then lay down on a well-greased linoleum rug and begin playing cross-eyed parchesi with the man he graduated from high school. But this time this Buell guy catched the kick and run back with it towards the opponents' ghoul and the old blue Eli declared it was foul tactics but the referee said willy nilly and what could anybody do about it? I am asking...