Word: sawbuck
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...looked like a goat . . . had ears like a jackass, a back like a sawbuck, no shine on the hair. The head was bent and, to top it all, the pup was cross-eyed...
...Shoestring Pratt." Now they are plain "our-Mr.-Zerkle," "our-Mr.-Bragg." Along the road they used to meet, instead of small-time vaudeville folk, really queer dicks like David Wilbur, Rhode Island's gentle, weatherwise, forest wildman, whose passion was scratching signs on pumpkins; Dan Pratt, the sawbuck philosopher, whiskered butt of a score of colleges; Ann Lee and her twelve disciples who rumor said were self-made eunuchs; and Johnny Appleseed, wilderness pilgrim, with his body in a coffee sack, his head in a tin pot, who took Swedenborgian Bibles to the Indians and in 46 years...
Every once in a while, at no regular interval, the world's philosophers-that is, its academic, its orthodox, not its whirling dervish, ivory tower or bucolic sawbuck philosophers-appoint a meeting place, and hold an International Congress of Philosophy. The last (fifth) Congress was in Naples in 1919. The one before that was in Paris, and indeed the Congress has never been held outside of Europe...