Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...remember my first day of Plebe life as though it were yesterday. Being fresh from a small Middle-Western college and full of collegiate ideas, I carried an ornamented green slicker, a golf bag and a suit case, covered with loyalty stickers. I was the last word in the hey-dey of the times. No sooner than I had walked through the fatal Sallyport on the morning of July first, I was no longer the collegian but the poor struggling Plebe...
...newsmen further learned that the Coolidge fishing costume was as follows: last year's Western (high-heeled) boots, khaki trousers, khaki shirt, slicker, last year's Western ("ten-gallon...
...thin hedge screening the river from a lake which it entered. Across the lake was a log cabin with a wet U. S. flag hanging over it. On the lake was a guide boat with a chair in it. In the chair sat a figure in a slicker and ten-gallon hat. He was watching trout come to the surface to snatch morsels of liver, their semiweekly rations. The surface of the lake was grey, desolate, broken. It was still raining...
...have convinced the editors of the awful injustice of their judgment. For the English company offers to have a background that is authentic in the matter of students as well as of quadrangles. The actors will be real students, and yet they are not obliged to wear the pictorial slicker or the loud sweater that speaks. The millennium is nearing when England's well known love of fair play has reached her film companies. One learns with regret that Oxford students do not anticipate with pleasure a romance whose consummation would come on the steps of the chancel. Little...
...blood and thunder seem as pat as they are plentiful in "Hey Rube!" the riot story, that is only because Mr. Tully is a journalist of 0. Henryesque dexterity. Surely irate oil-drillers would spill some of the blood of a short-change artist like Slug Finnerty and a slicker like Slug's boss, Bob Cameron...