Word: shopwindows
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Dates: during 1884-1884
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...Plancus which every man loves to talk of, with great equanimity and no complaint. It seems now. however, that this too, with so many other things, has been changed at Eton. Walking through the town the other day an old Etonian, who had known Plancus, observed in a shopwindow certain leg-guards, not unlike those worn by cricketers, but lighter and less hampering to the limbs. As was the case with Nell Cook on a certain memorable occasion, "fully filled his eyes," and he walked into the shop to ask if it were possible that Eton boys wore such things...