Word: callers
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...That pleasant country caller who you thought would never stir...
...last the verdant caller took his hat and said good night...
What a mass of compliments that bashful caller drawls...
...stairs again; they are just finishing the tomb. The carpenter is nailing together the parts of the statue of Isis and calling for the missing head, while above him the moon is getting into the right position. The property-man rushes around supplying the necessary beards and wigs; the caller comes down stairs, ringing the bell before each dressing-room, and there at the right of the stage stands the manager, with all his machinery within reach and the whole theatre under his thumb, ready to give the signal. The system is perfect, - a head for each department, every...
...rendered almost unavoidable by the huddling of five young lady chums into one study-room. To the studious, this system of chumming does more injury than the most earnest efforts of the instructors in the lecture-room can repair. Never free from interruption either by your chum or some caller, asked continually to do something foreign to the work that demands your attention, your mind at last takes on a desultory habit, to overcome which great energy is needed, - energy, too, that ought to be employed in studying, not in bringing your mind into a fit condition for work...