Word: shag
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...station, Smith's Creek, he was thrown off the train by a fuming conductor. Last week the incident was re-enacted with variations. Again a dinky, funnel-stacked, wood-burner chuffed into Smith's Creek station, laboriously pulling its coaches. Out of one coach was helped a shag-browed, stooped old man. He eyed the station signboard, recalled his onetime precipitous arrival at the same platform, smiled ruefully. He was Inventor Thomas Alva Edison. Nearby a lean, keen-eyed man stood beaming. He it was who had staged this performance. From afar he had brought the properties...
...While shag-hatted guardsmen .Changed Guard as though nothing were happening -drums rolling, band blaring, officers piping in loud falsetto-the surgeons and doctors worked. Half an hour later the Prince of Wales left, smiling. The operation was successful...
...bleak but fertile plains of Manitoba at dawn and dusk. Over them a short but beamy shag-pate, Caleb Gare, walking as though bent against a wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie...
...only Westminster tally was inadvertently kicked into the Crimson goal by Crosby after a stiff scrimmage within a few feet of the net, Downing and Shag being the rival attackers...
...summary: HARVARD WESTMINSTER Walker, Hill, l.w. r.w., S. Veno Martin, Larocque, c. c., Downing Baker, Larocque, r.w. l.w., Shag, W. Veno Owen, l.d. r.d., Small Crosby, r.d. l.d., Smith Higgins, g. g., Reaume...