Word: balling
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pleasure of your company is requested at the Farewell Ball to be given to the graduating classes by the Classes of '80, U. S. Naval Academy, Tuesday, June 10, 1879. Dancing to commence at nine o'clock...
...that stalwart man with a base-ball bat; give him room! He ties the end of a packthread to a ball, which he tosses up, strikes with his bat, and in a graceful parabola it sweeps over the heads of the crowd, and - see! the man on the roof has caught it. A burst of applause greets this brilliant play. Alas! he is on the Nine; an instinct stronger than that of preserving life seizes him; quick as thought, he throws it to second! It has hardly left his hands before he realizes that he has made an error more...
SCENE in a Cambridge ball-room. SNODKINS to VERY YOUNG LADY. Are you engaged for the German, Miss...
...need at least one active man in the field who will cover a tolerable amount of ground and do well at the bat. Although the prospect for the future is much brighter than it was, we can safely say that unless the men in college who have ever played ball before come to the front and lend their assistance, Harvard will not win, this year, the college championship which she has held with so much glory for the past three years; and '79 will have the misfortune of seeing Harvard humiliated in base-ball, as she has been in foot...
...MARKED you once this winter at a ball...