Word: pull
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fully conforms to Yale's new scheme of making quick strokes to win. It is of cedar, and 72 feet in length. . . . . It is believed that under the new plan the whole race cannot be rowed in good form. It will be suicide to attempt a four-mile pull with a bunched or crooked back or an uneven slide. Here, it is to be feared, will be discovered the weakness of the Yale crew. The crew do not observe the excellent rule made by Captain Cook, that the strength of the stroke should be expended at the moment the blade...
What earnest appeals we have from social moralists for the recovery of that lost art, "the old-fashioned girl," the girl who didn't wear bangs, nor high-heels, nor pull-backs; the girl who sewed, cooked and swept, instead of reading love novels and, like Boccacio, living them, as do the trifling flirts of today...
...frivolous times of James I. we find in a sermon preached at Whitehall a reference to "the French, the Spanish and the Polish fashions of giddy women." But really the ladies' dress of today is the very opposite of extravagant when compared with that of comparatively recent times. The "pull-back" is just as modest as the hoop-skirt, and as to those much-abused bangs it has always been a mystery to me what the average male intellect could see so utterly soul-destroying in a very becoming mode of dressing the hair. But you know that a certain...
...tell you she's a beauty." "Yes, very 'dog,' that's a fact." Butterfield's eyes opened in amazement, and he determined to see those dogs as soon as possible, for such a canine phenomenon was new to him - an animal that ate note-books and could pull two men in a cart was an animal worth seeing. Shortly after this, as the car settled down to a steady jog on the other side of the railroad track, after unloading several members of a colored colony, he began to look around him and take notice of the other passengers...
Fred. Coyne, a popular London comic singer and author, will shortly make a tour in the United States. He will best be remembered as the author of "Pull Down the Blinds," "Whoa, Emma," and other songs that have gained popularity...