Word: trousered
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...always gone into convulsions over such burlesquers as the carpenter scene in the Ziegfeld Follies several years ago. The Adagio Classique in this Bughouse Caebaret is much along the same lines. We recommend any show where one strong man misses his footing and slips down into his partner's trouser leg. That is our idea of something funny...
...Balkans and in the valleys of Armenia, find vent in less holy carnage on the Black Sea coast. But it must be tedious for the more peaceful Moslems to spend their mornings in detailed perusal of statute books, lost a life be at stake in the crease of a trouser leg or the tilt of a hat brim...
...Shore, between Canton and Shanghai, pirates were reported active. The legend of the "Pirate Queen," a muscular, almond-eyed, trouser-wearing female came to life. She and part of her polyandrian crew boarded the S.S. Kwanchung, seized it before it left Canton. At a prearranged point, they clambered to the bridge, poured fatal shot into four seamen. Their confederates came alongside, and presently the whole bottom including the Chinese Captain, two Chinese Christian preachers, 50 passengers, steamed to an unknown piratical cove. The Queen demands $120,000 ransom...
...mourned Philip Randolph, Editor of The Messenger, Negro publication. He was writing of the lamentable plight of the Negro Pullman Porter ?poor black amorons who, galvanized by slave psychology, kneel to scrub the boots, rub off the trouser-cuffs of patrons and company officials, too timorous, too servile to better their plight...
...shoes, the trouser-cuffs of company officials...