Word: twirled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...more hazing done here this year than for several years past, but it does not take on a very violent form. One chipper New Haven youth who is inclined to be something of a dude, and who is just entering upon his college career, was given a pretty sharp twirl by a party of Sophomores last Tuesday evening. They captured him with his bicycle suit on, took him around to a Broadway saloon and made him set the drinks up for the crowd. Then they made him "browse," and scan Greek and make speeches. Not satisfied with this, they decided...
...Professor of Fine Arts had been chosen referee. The captains of the two elevens drew lots with straws for the possession of the ball. Yale won, and the game began. Yale's centrerush, the beautiful symmety of whose calf and the bewitching twirl of whose moustache were especially admired by the ladies, took the ball and ran gracefully towards his opponents' goal. He had not gone far when a Harvard man gently laid his hand upon his shoulder and begged him to stop. Thereupon the sides lined up. The quarter-back passed the ball to the half-back, who kicked...
...given the twirl of a Vandyke twiste...