Word: straws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Brine, importer of English straw hats, all styles; English flannel caps, all colors; English striped coats, all colors; English flannel tennis pants, four grades to order; English ties, all shades; Franklin expert racquets; tennis balls, at wholesale prices; tennis shoes and base-ball shoes; tennis suits. J. W. Brine 10 and 11 Harvard...
...Brine, importer of English straw hats, all styles; English flannel caps, all colors; English striped coats, all colors; English flannel tennis pants, four grades to order; English ties, all shades; Franklin expert racquets; tennis balls, at wholesale prices; tennis shoes and base-ball shoes; tennis suits. J. W. Brine 10 and 11 Harvard...
...turned-over collar, a small cape rounded in front, and a belt of the material of the dress. The sleeves were either hooked or buttoned at the wrist. It was trimmed with a long-tasselled white fringe. The accompaniments of this dress were a low-crowned and broad-brimmed straw hat, secured by a broad ribbon under the chin; trowsers, and silk or thread gloves, of a color in harmony with that of the toga, and, usually, a heavy cane. It is not known to whom belongs the distinction of having first conceived the College Toga...
Several members of the Board started for the door, but through weakness none reached it. A Goat hired of Puck, in anticipation of 'Beautiful Snow' literature, expired in his box of straw. As the Ibis leaned over this box, and arranged the straw so as to cover the lifeless body, he murmured, with an air that reminded one of bygone summers, of fruit and of flowers: - "Ah, well! The Board of Straw-berries him completely...
...stuck to the regular feed I couldn't have eaten all those extras, so it seems to me they ought to wipe off either the "board" or the "extra" items. And here, may it please the Olympian Tens, is the last one of all,-the last straw, too. 'Gymnasium Locker,' $2. Now considering the fact that I lost about $30 worth of clothes out of that very locker, owing to the neglect of the athletic committee to "turn the rascals out" who have been indulging in amusing little vagaries of a kleptomaniacal nature during the entire term, I certainly think...