Word: souping
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Autumn rain in Nebraska made duck-soup of moleskins. Kansas men were slippery as noodles. Stephens of Nebraska shied a field-goal into the pot. It was all. It was enough...
Blackie and Blacker, the two missionary eating cannibals were there in. (you can hardly say full attire, although it is all they wear in the jungles). They searched throughout the evening for some likely missionary who would make good soup. Two tramps, with shot guns, made it their duty to see that the savages did not get away with any unsuspecting frollickers. At intervals throughout the dance these shaggy creatures would stealthily come up behind someone and pull the trigger. The hall would vibrate with shreiks of the weaker sex and the boom of firearms...
...story. It became an epic. Ruth Pudley's bright-haired presence is even simpler to explain. She was "busted" out of Bryn Mawr for "deplorable contumacy of conduct." She was ready to divorce or annul, her clerical father, "the meanest man in the world." "He practises slurping his soup," she said, "so he can do it louder and louder. He dunks his toast in his coffee and his bread in his tea. He wears out two Bibles a year just clutching at them when he thinks of me. . . ." She simply adopted Higbie Chaffinch, went to live with him, proposed...
...slurps" his soup, "dunks" his bread...
...that have scoured Berlin, Paris and London for loathsome pictures of vice to buttress the faith of Americanos ("I saw there what I never saw here-girls actually taking out their lipsticks in public. They used so much paint on their lips that they soaked it off with the soup and were obliged to make up again between courses!"); that have engaged "well-posted" young men to conduct Roach Straton to resorts whence might be drawn anathema upon modern dancing for a thoughtless, urbane congregation ("For surely, my friends, if there is any choice . . . the odds are all in favor...