Word: brakeman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Some of the stories of the last number of the Advocate are unusually good. The best of them is undoubtedly "Wasted," a very pleasing and touching sketch by A. S. Pier. John Green contributes a dialect story entitled "The Brakeman's Story." It is very well done. Two sketches by Chamberlin are only mediocre. The first is the better of the two, for while the second is much the better subject, the reader is perhaps a little tired toward the end of being told "he lay on the desert." G. C. Christian contributes a story entitled "The Fate of Mary...
...years-secondly, a Texas girl, plump and pretty, with a natural antipathy to books and other instruments of cultivation, and a predilection for slang and amorous raillery (a girl whose type is familiar to many Harvard men) -and lastly, "a short, thickset young man with the countenance of a brakeman," of muckers, muckerish. Of these delineations, the first is the best, the second having certain touches of vulgarity which are not pleasing. Regarded as a story, this effort of Mr. Cohen's lacks effect in its conclusion...