Word: burr
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...infer from the tone of an article in the Virginia University Magazine, that the writer has been reading Parton's Aaron Burr. He says, "What Burr actually was is simply told when we pronounce him to be the most unlucky man that ever lived...
...President, Mr. Swift, called the company to order shortly after nine o'clock, and gave for the first toast, "The Class of '77," to which Mr. Denny, the Vice-President of the Institute, replied. After a song, Mr. Burr, the orator of the evening, delivered an oration sparkling with wit. This was followed by a poem, read by Mr. Barrett Wendell, and which may safely be pronounced the feature of the literary exercises...
...BURR OAK young lady entered a drug-store lately, and wanted to see the papers for a week back, and the intelligent clerk showed her a roll of sticking-plaster. - Tyro...
...Burr, H. M., 23 T. Doggett...