Word: cards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing I saw a card on the show-case. I seized it and followed, but when I reached the street she had disappeared. Looking at the card I had picked up, I read, "Miss Rosalie Rosehorn, 323 Ham Street." I was disappointed at first, but after reflecting that Ham Street was situated in the English...
...have received a faded crimson card with an account of the '84 rush at the Torchlight Procession printed on it. We would suggest to the perpetrators of this childish memento, that green might have been a more appropriate color...
...actresses in Boston by sight, and am rumored to be personally acquainted with a leading star; I can distinguish between claret, burgundy, cider, and champagne; I can criticise a woman's dress, and can retail all the latest Boston scandal, and am considered to be one of the best card-players in the College. There, sir, read that list through, and see if I am not on the road to become what every decent student wants to be, - a thorough man of the world...
...middle-aged man, who had all the appearance not only of a gentleman, but of an aristocrat, and who, after learning that I was an Englishman, conversed most fluently and delightfully in my own tongue during the whole of our long ride. Just before arriving he handed me his card, and said that he should call on me the next day and see if there was any thing he could do for me. His card read thus: Dr. De Beauville, Practising Physician, 14 Rue Berry...
...Yard will be paled in after 5 o'clock, on Class Day, and as no one will be admitted without tickets, it will be necessary to observe some care about invitations. The best device is to enclose with the invitation a card asking whether Yard tickets are wanted or not. All who are coming before 5 o'clock will not need them...