Word: blase
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Dates: during 1877-1877
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...trust that blase old Senior, when he says that the holidays no longer have their pristine charms for him. Believe it, the most pessimistic of us all is secretly muttering, - if he has not forgotten all his Latin, - "O domus, nunc te respiciam...
...their manners are easily copied, and their mode of thought is easily burlesqued, nothing is more common than for an American, who is convinced that he is a gentleman, and therefore a different being from the vulgar herd, to transform himself into a burlesque imitation of the blase European. Harvard men are particularly liable to this temptation. Their education is more cosmopolitan - if I may use the word - than any other on this continent, and the name and prestige of their college gives them a perfectly proper feeling of pride, not unlike that which any man feels who is fortunate...