Word: slinks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cambridge. Bells altoed. Morning classes were over at Harvard University. Through snow-beleagured quads, Harvard students began to march or slink to their luncheons. Outside Langdell Hall, a group loitered long, seemed, in fact, to have taken up a permanent station there. Others, curious, joined them. More and more kept coming, some with tippets, some with ear-tabs (for it was cold)?tall young men who waddled, short young men who strode; the worried, the weasel-faced, the debonair; men distinguished by their intelligence, by their apparel; lambs, lions, scoffers, leaders, bleaters, men who, in other clothing might have...
...spectacular. But what of Harrison? Won't he furnish drama! Won't he rake the Republicans over the coals! What will he leave of the Republican platform, that will then be a newborn babe, brought forth into the world only a few days before? Won't the Republican candidates slink away, like Cataline, before the scourging he will give them! Harrison is a man worth listening to. Hear his famous tongue as it has crackled...
...dies in the last act. And Isolde expires on his body, chanting the famous Liebestod. Hardened operagoers are in the habit of arriving in time for Wagner's soul-stirring prelude, and then marching out. They reappear for the great love-duet, and go out again. Finally they slink into their seats-just in time for the Liebestod. But let it here be said that this last performance, featuring Herr Curt Taucher as Tristan, Florence Easton as Isolde, and Arthur Bodanzky as conductor, was so good that it compelled many of the most inveterate "duckers" to listen to every...
...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...