... content to call you fairly good-looking would describe the Taj Mahal as a pretty nifty tomb." ... — The Clicking of Cuthbert • P. G. Wodehouse
... been done away with. There has been progress in football as in everything else. There's no wholesale slugging as in the early days, when the football field was more like a prize ring than a gridiron. Of course, once in a while, even now, you'll be handed a nifty little uppercut, if the referee isn't looking. But if they catch on to it, the fellow is yanked out of the game and his team loses half the distance to its goal line as a penalty. So that it doesn't ... — Bert Wilson on the Gridiron • J. W. Duffield
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