Word: pinned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...jagged points along the top, about three feet high. Ferdy tries to jump it, but his strength gives out and he sits on the top wire; the points tear his knickerbockers and pierce his epidermis, and Ferdy concludes it hurts much more than when he sat on a bent pin...
...interesting study, and that you may know them the better, I will mention a few of their chief characteristics. They sit around on benches and pretend to be reading, but beware, they are fooling thee! They sit on the benches, and, having pricked the newspapers they read full of pin-holes, they peep out and await their chance. It soon comes, and as a cat, from behind some garden shrub, pounces upon a poor robin picking a worm from out the earth, so pounce they upon the unsuspecting student picking a crib from out his pocket. Then internally they chuckle...
...with the average undergraduate of flesh and blood. Notwithstanding what we have said of the book, it is readable, and its faults are amusing. We advise those who want only to be entertained to read it, but we trust strangers anxious to get an idea of Harvard will not pin their faith to any great extent upon this production...
...Stoops to Conquer" was written before the days of pin-back skirts...
...Sweet pin...