Word: stickfuls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...torture of immemorial antiquity, performed by the ancient Greeks with the aid of a rope knotted about the brow, beneath which a stick was inserted and turned end over end, thus tightening the rope. Classical writers have noted that the eyes of the victim bulged from their sockets as the torture proceeded...
...Concentrate on Stick-Work...
Coach Lydecker, in commenting on Saturday's game, said that while it was closely contested, the team needed a great deal more practical work and experience. "We have had such a late start this season, that the team has had little opportunity to practice its stick-work which will have to be improved upon greatly before we go against other teams...
...perhaps it is not fair to damn, even with faint praise. "The High Adventure" will beguile many a world-worn modern--and more than beguile many a boy of fourteen who can take his dog for a grand walk when the book is read, a grand walk with stick a-flourishing and mind a-scurrying down the broad highway of youth and of romance, the highway scorned by authorities on comparative literature, by pedants and by profiteers...
Such a novel was "The Amateur Gentleman", such a novel is "The High Adventure". Jeremy Veryan with his stick and his dog and his prowess at arms and the game beloved of a certain Marquis of Queensbury betakes himself forth upon his highway. And many adventures curious and great test the stick and the dog and the prowess. For there are always evils to meet on any highway, especially a Jeffrey Farnol highway. Yet Jeremy has the light of dauntlessness in his eyes-and he loves a lady-two inimitable means of success in novels-or even in life...