Word: whip
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...basement the dull thud of falling tenpins is heard, and in the 'cage' prospective pitchers and catchers are preparing for the base-ball season. Shut up in a room with glass doors, into which eager eyes peer, the 'Varsity' crew, bare to the waist, with muscles standing out like whip-cords, bends to the oar. Five o'clock thirty minutes is the fashionable hour for dining, and in fact, is the only time the Harvard man enjoys his meal. This is the dinner hour. In the morning he sleeps too long to relish his breakfast; at noon he lunches...
Enter Tom Hathaway at other side of screen, with whip, and dressed as from riding. Soliloq. - "Well, here 's a pretty go! The idea of my being sent on such a wild goose chase! - As if I knew anything about maids! They might as well have told me to hire a howling dervish. Just as I was going off for a day's sport, too! I think mother might have hit on some other time to get sick. Some people are confoundedly inconsiderate, any way. [Notices screen.] Holloa! they cage the animals, do they? [Peeks through blind.] By Jove, there...
...aside, staggered]. - Well, I never. Perhaps she'd like a maid to herself and her own four and six, and - I've heard of such things, but [rises and walks up and down irritably, slashing his boots with his whip...
...quietly]. - That is very annoying. [He pays no attention.] [Peremptorily.] Put down that whip, sir, if you please. [He drops it in sheer amazement...
...heard of this disgraceful affair. However necessary it may sometimes be to overlook such petty tyranny in the case of a College official, in this case any such considerations would be out of place. This is by no means the first instance of the Bursar's swinging his unofficial whip. It is only a year ago or less that he turned out a student from his room, which was obtained in an honest manner, and advertised the room to let. But for the timely action of the President, who ordered the Bursar to give the room back to the occupant...