Word: shinful
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...diplomatic uniform of sorts, I cannot give you a title but I am sending you a uniform by express." Two days later Chairman Fletcher received a large box from A. G. Spalding & Bros, from which he extracted a football headguard, a catcher's mask, a chest protector, shin guards, a metal athletic supporter...
Jean Patou, Paris couturier, sailing home after a U. S. junket, told reporters that he had been kicked in the shin by a Manhattan debutante while dancing. Said he: "I would laugh at the cheek-against-cheek, the eyes-half-closed and the lower-part-of-the-body-trailing manner of dancing if it were not for its alarming public danger. The girl who kicked me - she retained a comic expression of rapture. The effect, I would say, was at least bad on the eyes." Of other U. S. mores said he: "Those blood-red fingernails are awful. Blood...
...Shin-Plaster...
...question dates from July 17, 1862, not from March 4, 1909, which is merely the date of a recodification. The act was intended to prevent private competition with the fractional paper currency in denominations less than one dollar, which the government was then issuing, which were commonly called "shin-plasters." It still serves a useful purpose in preventing the flooding of the country with quasi currency issued by individuals or corporations, but it has no application to a person who draws an ordinary check on his bank account for a sum of less than one dollar...
...cricket ball, watching their more athletic colleagues play the youngsters of the Royal Naval College. The cadet eleven ginined happily in their spotless white flannels and played close. They had just caught a grizzled Lieutenant-Commander leg-before-wicket, and the present batsmen, for all their massive shin guards and bushy eyebrows, seemed easy. Suddenly at a whispered word from the sidelines the long-white-coated umpire stopped the game and announced...