Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Baltimore Sun, able cartoonist Edward Duffy composed a sooty drawing of a burlesque policeman twirling an enormous stick over the head of a small figure with a derby hat, enormous ears, tight little coat, baggy pants and suitcase shoes at a familiar angle. This figure, whose little bamboo cane was labelled "Will Hays," was tossing aside a bag of boodle and grinning up at the officer with wrynecked, Chaplinesque embarrassment. The cartoon's title was "The Gold Rush...
...After they had been up a while, the instructor unhooked his control stick, showed it to the student, and threw it overboard with a great flourish and a malicious grin...
...Margaret, the wire-haired foxterrier bitch whom Reginald M. Lewis offered as his champion! She was a sturdy study in angles put together with a T-square. Everything indicated that her vitals were made of steel and rubber; her tail, when touched, would snap upward as crisply as a stick of whalebone. Her frisky good-nature was that of a high-pressure debutante; in a day when such ardent and consciously winsome charm is highly prized in drawing rooms, it cannot fail to have its value in the ring of a dog show; Talavera Margaret was judged the best...
...other words, a big stick in the corner, though not in the hand, is worth two in the bushes...
Score Harvard Freshmen 6, Dartmouth Freshman 2. Goals First period: Garrison (1.41), Watts (6:05). Fisher (12.20). Second period: Batchelder (2.05). Batchelder (6.25), Batchelder (8.00), Garrison (16.38), Third period: Johnson (9.31). Penalties: Andres (tripping), Johnson (high stick), Andres (tripping), Johnson (holding), Ogden (holding). Referee James Foley. Time, three 17-minute periods...