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They all donned their asbestos gloves and foot coverings under the professor's directions and put on the huge black goggles that had been brought along at the scientist's directions. "I guess we'd scare that wild man into conniption fits if he could see us now," chuckled Tom, surveying his mates as they started out for the black barren. "Yes, we look like a lot of men from Mars," agreed Dick.
"He did try." Mr. Starkweather rose. "Where's Anna?" "Out in the car. With Bob." His uncle froze. "Out there? Waitin' there all this time? For Heaven's sake, Henry, she'll be in a conniption fit! You go bring her in here and tell her to stop worryin'. I'm sore as the devil, and I'm goin' to make an example out of you, but that ain't any reason to act like a grouch, is it? Sound sensible to you?
Men claiming to be quasi-decent, if not altogether respectable, will carry home day after day and suffer to be read by their young daughters such a paper as the Houston Post with its "w. y. o. d.," and "take off your things" advertisements, its puffs of abortion pills and syphilitic panaceas who would have a conniption fit and fall in it should a copy of Bob Ingersoll's eloquent lecture on Abraham Lincoln creep into their library.
It isn't wise to have a conniption fit every time you lose a trick. Nothing looks so bad as a conniption fit when it doesn't match the complexion, and generally it delays the game. When the game is close don't get excited and climb up on the table. It shows a want of refinement, especially if you are not a quick climber. Never whistle while waiting for someone to play.
As to myself, if I ever get anything from government, it must not come to me through any of those arrangements by which trick and management, not to say dishonesty and conniption, are, to the shame of all parties, so frequently rewarded. With a slight change upon Pope, I say "'Grant me honest place, or grant me none." "Pope!
I'm sixty years old, but I can do a day's work with any of the young ones, but I can't leave him alone. I should have a conniption fit if I did." Quincy thought it advisable to allow the old lady to have her say out before replying. "Mrs. Scates, I think there are brighter days coming for you." "The Lord knows I have prayed hard enough for 'em." Quincy spoke to Arthur.
So, before all the decencies of Hendrik had recovered from the shock of the Hoop, she threw them into a new and worse "conniption" by an even more daring innovation upon their good, easy notions of her; for the next thing she did was a basque and flounces. Thus it happened: Madeline had become quite another Madeline, say a Magdalen, rather, under the gentle discipline of her admirable angel.
Mother leaped up, furious, and snapped, "I'm simply ashamed of you, the way you act, like you never would grow up and get a little common sense, what with scaring me into conniption fits, and as I was just going to say, and I only say it for your own good, if you haven't got enough sense to know how little sense you have got, you at your time of life, why, well, all I can say is you ought to know better."
Lou Cornwall came flying into Toinette's room just after dinner to find it well filled with seven or eight others. "May I come, too?" she asked. "Oh, girls, if we don't have a sleigh-ride to-morrow, I'll have a conniption fit certain as the world." "Do you always have one when there is snow?" asked Toinette. "Which, a sleigh-ride or a conniption fit?" laughed Lou.
"Oh, I know something that would be perfectly fine!" exclaimed Nora, hopping about in excitement. "Watch her," cried Hippy. "She is about to have a conniption. She always has them when an idea hits her. I've known her for years and " "Make him stop," appealed Nora to David and Reddy, "or I won't tell any of you a single thing."
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