Word: aprons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...exact ancient vestments; the chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon him, a square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff...
...morality or immorality. It merely shows that here there are more opportunities to bring out a man's evil propensities. Neither is Harvard the place for the weakling, who, thanks to the watchful eye of a loving parent, has never seen the world outside of the orbit of the apron-strings. With an exultant sense of freedom he will plunge into the wildest dissipation...
Lionel, his aid-de-camp; a manslayer and a lady-killer. All he asks is a chance, W. K. Draper-Thibaut, Joan's papa, and a tassel on his daughter's apron string, G. C. Adams...
...virtues for muddled fuddled stultified fabulous pandomoniums. Try is the lever that moves the life and matter of the world. Mark the march of evolution the last six thousand years ever since the days of Adam and Eve playing behind an apple tree sowing leaves together to make an apron or the dens and caves in the earth for a habitation. The future of the past eclipsed by humanity to man the heaven of the mind. Shakespere divides greatness into three characters, first born great, second to have greatness thrust upon you and third to make yourself great...
...question of the Freshman theatre party; and, with the Advocate, we are heartily opposed to the recurrence of that senseless folly. When first they became the custom, these theatre parties were merely a manifestation of the exhuberant delight of a lot of schoolboys at breaking away from the apron-strings. But nowadays Freshman classes are composed of men so much older and more mature in every way, that they would scorn such an explanation of their acts. They keep up the custom, not because they actually get much enjoyment from its observance - for we believe that most of them have...