Word: trouserings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...original female promiscuity has brought fatherhood into disrepute, as an agency too casual to be revered and too dubious to be trusted. That suggestion is implicit in the affairs of the Jewish family Rakowitz. Babette, afterwards the first Mrs. Rakowitz, used to march each evening, attended by two white trouser-legs, to the camp of the Emperor Napoleon at Pressburg. She bred and ruled many Rakowitzes, passed her domineering spirit down through seven generations of Rakowitz women who overruled seven generations of Rakowitz men. The book is an extraordinary graph of the involved ganglia, the subtle criss-crossing veins...
...have seen the glow which the old-fashioned "all-day choker" matches gave out when scratched in the dark. This pale glow is due to white phosphorus used in making the head of the match so that it will strike easily and anywhere--from the thumb nail to the trouser...
MEET THE WIFE?A satirical domestic farce on the trouser-wearing wife...
MEET THE WIFE-A satirical domestic farce on the trouser-wearing wife...
Probably the most singular novelty of the season was the appearance of rubber trousers ? worn by Army, Pittsburgh and West Virginia players on rainy playing fields. Comparatively light in weight and slippery as an eel's hips, the player thus equipped has his opponents at a considerable disadvantage. It is probable that the Rules Committee will afford the rubber trouser legislative recognition...