Word: tins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps cadets never heated their cannon-balls before rolling them, but roll them they certainly did down the iron stairways of cadet barracks to the accompaniment of bucketfuls of stone poured from the upper story windows upon the tin roofs of the porches below. And though I recall no instance of a skunk being placed in the desk of a West Point professor, there is an authentic story to the effect that the superintendent's cow was once hoisted to the top of the tower of the old Academic Building and left there in the night to moo--out hours...
...gaudy contrivance made of bright new sheet tin, wooden mouldings colored bright red and black and a strip of compressed cork. It looked like a modernistic candy counter, except that a long piece of pipe went with...
...expect her husband and sons back from their business until the Spring. But June came, the fishing season started, and still they did not return. Neighboring trappers and lumbermen talked of organizing search parties. But, remembering shock-headed Dave Courtois' experience, his brawn, his ability to quaff tin dippers of "trade whiskey" from a barrel, they waited...
Stalwart, brawny men there are today who, if they could remember scenes from their suckling days, would recall not the soft fullness of a mother's breast but a chunky tin can emitting the satisfying gurgle of U. S. condensed milk. And many a man, sensitive to form and color, would recall as a prime symbol of his infancy a fine full-blown pink blossom-the trademark of Carnation Milk...
...Brisbane's memory is not always perfect. It was Alice herself who changed size, when she nibbled pieces of the Caterpillar's mushroom. The Cheshire Cat, constant in size, faded in and out of sight. tin this fable, the frozen snake came to, bit the Woodman...