wheel-barrow men — felons from the county jail who were condemned earlier by a strange law to sweep the streets publickly and disgracefully weighted down with irons.

He gave a short summary without getting into the nitty-gritty of the problem.

It was a Turkey! He never could have stood upon his legs, that bird. He would have snapped 'em short off in a minute, like sticks of sealing-wax.

Mainliners view sociology as a profession or occupation, and marginals are antisociologists and unsociologists.