Word: bits
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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They fought and they bit...
...they appeal to one's own experience. In point of literary workmanship, the tales vary to some extent. The second is one of really weird pathos, and so placed as to gain in power by contrast. No. 4 is very ingeniously contrived and very amusing. The last is "A Bit of Shore-Life," and is refreshingly "salt." It consists of a series of rapid descriptions of shore-life, as vivid as one of Norton's "Marines" strung upon a simple thread of narrative...
...ambiguity of the English language is well shown in the following bit...
...full title, which runs as follows: "A Tight Squeeze; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, who on a wager of ten thousand dollars undertook to go from New York to New Orleans in three weeks without money, as a professional tramp." It is a very ingenious and entertaining bit of work, full of characteristic humor, and at the same time containing much valuable information concerning tramp life, which, if true, points to the solution of many a problem of social science. At the same time there is woven into the narrative a thread of romance which comes to full view...
...into a dancing-hall. We have ten electives in Dancing. The hall is now ready for the third assembly in Dancing 8, to take place this evening. This elective is open to Seniors only, and is very select." "But," said I, "is there no trouble about partners?" "Not a bit. We have the elite of Boston and Cambridge. In Dancing I, however, open only to Freshmen, the Goodies are called into requisition as partners." I said I hoped they were more attractive than mine used...