Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tigers 'strong fifteen is headed by Pepper Constable, football captain, who starred in the recent 22-8 victory over Long Island University. Shaun Kelly, Crimson grid leader, will be forced to stick to the side lines with a charley horse; the Harvard ruggers will be further handicapped by the loss of Kennedy, Babbitt, and Williams, who are on the injured list...
Clad in a blue topcoat and a black Homburg hat and carrying a horn-rimmed monocle and a gleaming Malacca stick, Captain Cullen sniffed and snorted: "This talk about insolent stewards is just a lot of g- -d hooey and lies. Why, there was not a steward logged [fined] except a couple for getting drunk. And I'd log 'em if there were any reason...
...cannot but feel, however, that the "Association of Gold Star Mothers" got the dirty end of that Princeton stick. They get shipped to Europe "to view the green fields where their sons shall some day lie" while we stay home and enjoy our boni at Savin Rock. Inasmuch as Mr. Brisbane assures us that the next war will be a Japanese invasion, we see no reason why the Vassar heroines cannot get "teary around the eyes" looking at the green fields adjacent to New Haven...
Ralegh was the greatest failure of the Elizabethan age, and outside his native Devon the most hated man in England. His rocket-like career came down like a dead stick, but there was a star-burst before the end. Ralegh was a gentleman but not a noble, and both the Tudor and the older nobility frowned on him as an upstart. After a fitful attendance at Oxford some fighting in the Low Countries and in Ireland (where he made historians shudder by his part in the massacre at Smerwick), Ralegh went to Elizabeth's court and began his rapid...
Thence, this day to seek the sweet tradition. So as a Vagabond I to dress, very handsome, in mousey grey trousers, new ascot to match, and glad was the woman to fetch the cutaway: "Not in a year has it been out", and so with shining topper and swinging stick, I to church and my cloak blowing in the breeze...