Word: sacking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...clothes at Harvard are somewhat like the ablative in Latin: they express manner, means, quality-and price. Hence I could not but ponder with much anxiety on the question, how long the coattails should be, if indeed it were not better to stick to the old-fashioned sack, and how large a pair of shoes the trousers should be made to admit...
...Which would you have, a sack coat or a cutaway...
...audible, but as I have read the "Robbers" in my German elective, and sat under the sarcastic professor of themes, I did not blush. On his aunt's murmured reply, he proceeded, "What is a Deene? Does he eat up the naughty boys, or carry 'em off in a sack?" A gentleman who was leaving the car remarked that "they were generally too 'tough' to be swallowed, and had to be sacked...