Word: slickers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Devil also became the butt of some of the first fine sallies of Yankee humor. One of them is an ancestor of a long posterity of country-bumpkin v. city-slicker witsnappers that pass current to this...
...starting cry of "Ready all. Row!" Harvard Coach Tom Bolles clamped his battered felt hat down firmly on his bald head, wrapped his black slicker around him, stood high in the middle of the coaches' launch, gripping two stop watches. Big Jim McMillin, dressed in undersized Marine green jumpers, stood nervously beside him. For nearly a mile, as the launch dropped farther & farther behind, M.I.T. and Harvard matched strokes in third and fourth places on the pace set mainly by Pennsylvania and Princeton...
Lloyd Jordan, wearing a green slicker inched into his football panta, outlined the practice procedure he intends to follow for the next two weeks and after spring vacation for three more. He introduced his assistants, four of whom are also now to Harvard football, and them everybody moved over to Briggs Cage...