Word: cards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Immediately upon learning of the arrival of the lord of aesthetes, we had an appropriate costume made for our reporter by Mr. Frank Millet, and sent him to New York. Upon arriving at Mr. Wilde's hotel the reporter sent up his card, and an answer was brought that the poet desired some minutes to meditate upon the propriety of receiving an earthy visitor...
...Christmas card...
MESSRS. J. R. OSGOOD & CO'S Christmas card advertisement is one of the most artistic we have ever seen...
...bustling in]. - Dreadfully sorry to have kept you waiting so long, mum; the coachman is below, mum, if you'll step this way. [Exeunt Mrs. F. and Miss C., the latter letting fall a card from her muff as she goes out. Tom, who has stopped whistling and has been standing dumb-founded, darts forward and clutches card...
...great deal more in the same language; and one boy said it was Ponca, and meant that Mr. Wendell Parnell would discuss the Irish question in Holden basement. Another said it had just come over from Assos, and was a Christmas card designed by Agamemnon. But whatever it was, my aunt swooned at the sight and was carried to the college hospital, where, surrounded by luxury and a circle of happy friends, she died...