Word: accosts
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...striking likeness between the Messrs. Wilson and Bok was a source of pleasure to them both. If they lunched together, friends of Mr. Bok would accost him afterwards: "Was that your brother?" And once on a train going to Manhattan when they were wearing precisely similar suits of pepper-and-salt mixture and twin grey felt hats, Mr. Wilson is said to have said: "Look more like each other than ever, don't we? Well, that's an advantage for me. The people in the car will think you are the Governor, and as the Governor...
...answer the contentions of those who espouse the cause of the profession, but at the same time believing that the very strength of the argument against him is due to some subtle twist of logic that lawyers only are capable of using. He who doubts this need only to accost the first laborer he meets and lead him into a discussion of the matter...
...designed as the social solvent of the university--the place where the unintroduced might dispense with the introduction. While perhaps not explicitly, it was, in general, the idea of its builders that, in this sanctuary of brown oak and leathern upholstery, one undergraduate stranger might accost another and spend that enjoyable hour of chat of two travellers thrown together by the fortunes of the road during the wait for a train on a remote station platform. To a limited extent (a very limited extent) the Union has fulfilled this purpose. But bricks and mortar will not shut out the prevailing...
...likely that two men who have never before met should be induced by the sight of a button to become close friends. They may, however, be led to recognize each other as members of the same class, and if occasion is offered will be more likely to accost a follow classman than a stranger without the class insignia...
Even in the summer, when the grounds are carefully placarded with notices to to the effect that only authorized guides are permitted, there are objectionable features, since the guides apparently accost every will-appearing person who enters the Yard. It seems as if it should be possible to secure the services of one or two students, whose rooms are easily accessible, to act in the capacity of guides during certain hours of the day. A few notices, directing visitors to such students, might be posted, and thus the services of trustworthy persons as guides would be assured...