Word: rabbited
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Afternoon gowns are being worn under long, straight coats trimmed by bands of mink, skunk, chinchilla and rabbit. Some are executed in duvetyn and gilded velvet with marked effect...
...service as a golfer on the Walker Cup (earn in England." Thomas Gibbons, challenger for the world's heavyweight boxing-championship: "Mayor Nelson of St. Paul gave me a good luck token before my departure for Shelby, Mont. It was the left hind foot of a buck rabbit shot in a cemetery at midnight under a full moon...
...that have recently come up for its consideration are a reductio ad absurdum of the compensation law. Among the petitioners for remuneration is a prisoner in the Sing-Sing death chamber. Another man won damages against his employer because, while engaged in his work, he was mistaken for a rabbit by a party of hunters and filled full of buckshot. Another award was made on the fact that a man accidentally cut himself with a tool with which he was trying to ease a tight shoe on his own foot...
...head of this column, reminds us that in reviewing "Lady Windermere's Fan" at the Copley, a Boston critic styled Wilde a "master phrasemonger." The play-wright has little in the matter of phrasing over the Harvard professor who lectured on H. G. Wells as "the arch-rabbit of literature...
...Hunt, fraught though these terrifies often are with a deeper meaning, and enters a larger region. Old experience has reached its prophetic strain. Yet the tone remains that of the familiar essay. We become aware that this wise man, talking so informally, is able to see not merely the rabbit in his lettuce patch but the world as a whole. So we go back to "An Interview with an Educator," "The Pearls of the Literate," "Natural Enemles," and "The Pilgrima," and find that the windows of our humble room look out upon the wide, wide world. That, I venture...