Word: pith
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Observers awaited with attention the important information which General Rossi can undoubtedly release at Paris, if he chooses to replace vivid sensationalism with matter of demonstrable pith...
...Pith-helmeted Britishers, suckled on the strong wine of an imperial tradition, reared to carry a white man's burden without stooping, made rendezvous at their Hongkong clubs, waited the word of command. A cruiser, a team of gunboats, coaled up in the harbor...
...Chinese boycott of British shipping had already become surprisingly effective. The impertinence of it was not to be endured. Leaders of the pith-helmeted colony took counsel, called a proper Anglo-Saxon mass meeting, indicted resolutions after the Eton and Oxford manner, monopolized the cables...
...prosecution, lumbered off a train from Florida. The populace, Bryan's to a moron, yowled a welcome. Going to the house he had rented, Bryan took off his coat, wandered the streets in his shirt sleeves, a panoramic smile of blessing upon his perspiring countenance, an impressive pith helmet covering the bald, pink dome of his head...
Meantime the Britons landed in Manhattan, joined Lieut. Col. T. P. Melvill, who had preceded them to the U. S. with their ponies. Donning leather, linen and pith, they galloped forth for their practice. They were...