Word: snifter
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Harvard's band, a century or more strong, appeared towards dusk to try out their rhythmic notes in preparation for a mid-period tussle today with the Brown syncopates. As the climactic event of the program came the feline ramblings of a coffee-colored alley-snifter who communed with Wes Fesler's 70-yard punts and finally succumbed to the enticement of Frank Ryan's puss-calls...
...trenchers by Christmas" would then be the motto for their conversion. But the undergraduate members of the House can hasten the process of domestication by always acting kindly, and never doing anything that might startle a tutor. Occasional tenders of friendship from the students, such as cocktails, or a snifter or two of pre-war Scotch, would also certainly help to overcome the reluctance of the dons. If only all of them would consider the few of their number who do dine with college men, and the many happy times so spent, perhaps all of them would find...
...asking helplessly: "Why is a mouse when it spins?"; and "The Dinosaur's Egg" turns this technique into presumably formal fiction. The author starts several things and when within view of the prey sits down and lights a cigarette. Uncle Bliss, a big-game hunter who calmly takes a snifter out of his pocket flask at a strictly temperance dinner, goes to Africa hunting pterodactyls. He encounters something big and snaky that might as well be a pterodactyl as anything else and shoots it, whereupon it sinks to the bottom of the river. Uncle Bliss catches malaria and goes home...