Word: apt
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...proportions in that most indiscreet material - black velvet.) I have often thought that some of these idiosyncrasies of dress were owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other noticeable ornaments within the space of a few inches on their breast, and leave the nether parts to take care of themselves. It should not be forgotten that in nine postures out of ten assumed by the body at rest...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: As usual, many men were disappointed in the result of the drawing for rooms last Tuesday. Of course, we all know that some must be disappointed, and therefore try to bear it with equanimity. But what adds to our disappointment is a thought which is apt to suggest itself to us, however unpleasant it may be, that we are not getting fair treatment. If we were sure that every thing was square and above-board, and that we had an equal chance with every other man, we would go our way in peace, simply regretting...
...these appeared as many of the lions as could be induced to be present. The rising young men and women were invited and were sometimes allowed to read one of their own productions. At one time the great attraction was a certain scientific defender of Orthodoxy, whose quotations were apt to be as fabulous as his support of prohibition principles was stormy and inaccurate. The blue-eyed and vegetarian supporter of idealism would of times be present and gently insinuate that all these new ideas were to be found in Plato. Papers were read by the "big bugs" and discussed...
...inhabitants, is, as Ford wrote of Spain, "a gastronomic erebus," and boasts nothing better in the way of a restaurant than what would be deemed quite fourth-rate in New York. Moreover, the poor food induces, in the words of Cambridge's poet, "restless, unsatisfied longing," which is too apt to be satisfied at the numerous drug stores, at which mysterious and exhilarating medicines are obtained at the wink of the initiated...
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