Word: rasping
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...four years, that is perhaps another story. Even if he did spent more time chasing the fleet football than what Mr. Dooley once called "the more fleet aorist", he had some theoretical respect for that part of man which grows above the neck. Now, apparently, quite otherwise. The pleasant, rasp of the golden key as it slides along the watch chain seems a pale delight compared to the costasies of throwing, the victorious hat over the goal bar of the bowl or the stadium. W. W. Williams in the N. Y. Evening Post