Word: trouserings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole was a series of experiments in wireless telegraphy. On Mr. Dunninger's back, under his coat, were a transmitting set and four flashlight batteries so carefully concealed that they did not distort his figure. Inside his trouser legs dangled antennae. In his pocket was a telegraph...
...supplies more laughs than are usually forth-coming in what the producers label "comedy". She and Neil Hamilton carry on as the girl and boy reporters who snag the big news story of the year. The prize incident is when The Boy spills a bottle of ink down his trouser leg. "It's only ink" says She, as she watches it trickle. Does one laugh in a case like that...
...into the back seat of a car belonging to one Mike Scaffano. There she built her nest and gave birth to a litter of small rats. Last week Mike Scaffano drove his car into the middle of Burlington; perturbed, the rat crawled into the front seat, and up the trouser leg of Mike Scaffano. Dismayed, frightened, severely bitten, Mike Scaffano drove his car into a telegraph pole...
...look back and see that their cash accounts have been ridiculously handled; that their time gas been wanted here and there, and that such treasured ideals as Efficiency and Purpose have gone to the damnation bow-wows. And then they look ahead and make resolutions. Those holes in the trouser pockets shall be sewed up, and the old gentleman with the hour-glass and the sickle shall march more properly in time to the music. This above all; everybody will henceforward be true to his purpose. Everybody has a purpose of course; if he hasn't, He has no excuse...
...They also do away with the necessity of a vest. Shoes are brown with very light saddles; the last word in college nattiness. But the men who labor for the good Felix may mix up the colors a bit. Of socks we have nothing to report; 21 inches of trouser cuff did away with all possibility of discovering them...