Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of rhyme at the present time. The poems are the offsprings of an unsullied imagination and of an intellect more vigorous and growing than subtle or matured; the poet thinks of something else than garden-wall or opera-box love; there comes home to him those other feelings and impulses of youth, and so he does not write only of a theme to which college poets have so long devoted their talent and occasional genius, that, despite the universality of the tender sentiment, they have made it pall upon...
...appropriate memorial near the scenes of the poet's life, this association calls for a national subscription. It asks for contributions of one dollar each, for which a certificate of honorary membership in the association will be given. Contributions should be sent to John Bartlett, treasurer, P. O. Box 1590, Boston, Mass...
...notices and communications for the HERALD should be left in the box at Drury's before 4 o'clock P. M. to insure publication in the next morning's issue...
...which was made to wear with a collar and was not meant to be seen. After she had managed to effect her purpose with a considerable outlay of pins, her looking-glass showed her the necessity of another application of the bit of chamois skin kept in her powder-box. Mrs. Butterfield then descended to ask Mrs. De Sorosis if there were any powder on her face, and found that lady in the kitchen with a "new girl," as she expressed it, doing her best to explain in a short time the possibilities open to a connoisseur in the opening...
...Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said that the expressman had just brought a box of Whitman's candy to one of them; and then they thought they could discover the culprit by asking all the innocent ones to go to the board and tell them that it was not they; and then the Miscellany got mad because only the older girls went, ("older" means here...