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...nearly every one can comply with is that which calls for the growing of home gardens. It is not too late even yet to start a bit of backyard cultivation that will bring good food at a cost to make that over-grown rascal, Costoliving, blush for shame and slink away into the tall timber. --Boston Traveler...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 6/10/1920 | See Source »

...this afternoon at 3 o'clock on the ice. All CRIMSON players and their valets will report at the CRIMSON offices at 2.45 o'clock for a triumphal march to the field. The Lampoon cohorts will assemble at the Bow street pile at 3.45 o'clock whence they will slink to their Waterloo. The crowd has already started to arrive and by the time the whistle is blown it is expected fully 14 people will be in attendance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wizards of the Rink Clash | 1/18/1915 | See Source »

...whine that nearly killed the Sophomores with laughter). When they recovered, and allowed him to come out, he merely gazed at them with his beautiful china-blue eyes full of that look of meek reproach for which his brother was famous. To his intense astonishment, they did n't slink out of the room abashed and ashamed. They only said that he looked so pious he ought to lead them in prayer; and they made...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ROMANCE OF A PIOUS YOUTH. | 4/23/1880 | See Source »

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