Word: pith
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Stripped of his pink sport shirt and shaded by a white pith helmet, he nevertheless found fishing a good way to sit and loaf. Loafing was his chief objective and he got a lot of it done. He kept his weight level by frequent swims off the fantail of his yacht Williamsburg (he uses a side stroke to keep his glasses dry). And he managed to do almost no work. He signed a few documents, put off until this week everything that required anything more than his signature...
...game hunter in pith helmet, khaki shorts and orange jacket stalked along the railroad platform. His prey: Princeton men, Class of 1925. His quarry was expressed by jeep or taxi to class headquarters-in a vacant lot on University Place, decked out now like a carnival site...
Just among Fronds. The hostel had one important atmospheric touch-there were banana trees in the yard. When a man got orders to "get out and cover the war," he could always get a snap of himself in pith helmet and shorts, grinning bravely amid the banana fronds, to send his home office...
...that its clothes can be found not far from its kill. If struck by iron or steel, the skin on the forehead of a true werewolf splits and the naked man pops out. If the beast is freezing cold, however, it is invulnerable to everything but balls of elder pith or bullets made of inherited silver...
...Expert Carl Sandburg has uncovered no versions of Frankie's pith-&-vinegar saga, some with as many as 30 stanzas...