lath-and-tinsel

Updated: May 3, 2025

Miss Roberta Holland meant well, but she had many things to learn and no master to teach her. Yet when the flu epidemic returned upon us, she stood by, efficient, deft, and gallant, though still imperious, until the day when she clashed her lath-and-tinsel sword of theory against the tempered steel of the Little Red Doctor's experience. Or get out. Which?" She straightened like a soldier.

Samuel Hopkins Adams - From a Bench in Our Square