Word: came
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...quite unpleasant for all who chanced to be on the floor at the time it was indulged in. On reading further, we discovered our mistake, for "the only really unpleasant feature of the evening was that little scene around the lunch counter during the intermission. Some of those who came without ladies acted as if they were at a Delta. Kappa. peanut bum, and in spite of the entreaties of the committee and waiters, crowded, till those who were disposed to be gentlemanly had to push in to get anything at all." As we read, still further down the column...
AMONG this singular people -the aborigines of the Mississippi Valley -the chief deities appear to have been Munnee and his wife Boshor. Their story is very obscure, but the most recent investigations seem to show that they came from the land of the rising sun, and found, in the country of the mound-builders, a hopelessly savage people. With the aid of the magic power which they drew from the sun, they gained complete control of the whole region, but they were at first unable to civilize the natives. The aboriginal race had sunk to such a depth of degradation...
From this godlike race the mound-builders were directly descended, and it is probable that the mounds were erected in the hope of attracting the attention of Munnee and Boshor, if they ever came sailing back, and of inducing them to land and to renovate the human race once more...
...when her words came to my ears, no thought...
...less than a Sheridan, and the age itself is clownish or witty accordingly. To those who have scanned most eagerly the literary horizon of our own age for the predicted rise of its great facetious luminary, the meteor-like appearance of Henry C. Carey* among its most brilliant stars came with all the surprise that the greatness of the event demands; and every American observer must congratulate himself that the supremely great humorist of this nineteenth century comes at so opportune a time. The centennial guns will mouth him a fitting welcome, and that too in the State...