Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friend, Tom, and I had been filled with the abounding zest and ambition of youth. We were determined to make something of ourselves, to go out into the world and do big things in a big way. One day Tom showed me the modest prospectus of the I. C. S., flanked on one side by a Holeproof Hosiery miss and on the other by an earnest exhortation to "Ask Dad, He Knows...
...That for mine," Tom declared in positive tones. "I am going, without obligation on my part, to mark with an X the subject or subjects in which I am particularly interested. Come on, it's the chance of a life-time...
...innocent fool that I was, shook my head. "There's nothing in it," I asserted. "Now I am going to get a liberal education in fifteen minutes a day by reading Dr. Eliot's Five-Foot Shelves. Join me, Tom, and you'll never regret...
...Tom Shearer, whose wife, sharp of nose and tongue, came from Péche à Agneau in the island of Sark, ran the George. Daniel, his son, was the friend of Ernley Munk, the heir to the Crown...
...dark forms poured forth an impromptu parade. Song burst out, punctuated with shouts, as the paraders marched. Placards were hoisted aloft, reading: "What is this going to be- an army or a university?"; "Before we will be slaves we will be in graves"; "Don't be an Uncle Tom...