Word: chap
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Nassau Lit remarks editorially how college opinion is against the "Poor Poet Chap," and regrets that more attention is not given to poetry in college curricula. Following is an extract from the discussion...
References, Monday, February 11, Bolles, Finan. Hist., vol. ii., bk. iii., chap. vi. Von Holst, Const. Hist., vol. ii., pp. 451-403. Calhoun Works, iv., pp. 201-212. Niles's Register, vol. 62, pp. 262-263, (Letter of Talmadge...
...ordered the fight to stop. They were greeted by the fighters and spectators with yells and jostled about. Frantic with annoyance, the officers drew their clubs and brandished them over their disrespectful neighbors. The derisive hooting made the officers mad. They grabbed the nearest man, an innocent little chap named George Darby. The crowd then "rushed" both officer and prisoner down into the commons, while stones rattled on the backs and caps of the officers like hail on a barn. The excitement was made intense by some one of the crowd firing a pistol. Another officer then appeared, and, with...
...Lotus Glee Club, composed of graduates of Harvard, rendered several selections at the annual meeting of the Boston Bar Association. Among the songs was a chant of chap. 2, sec. 7, of the constitution of Massachusetts, defining the powers of the governor...
...been in love. In fact, he frankly admitted that he knew nothing of women. He knew none of the secrets of flowers, fans, gloves, smiles and the like which I believe come under the head of "Feminine Fancies." I say I believe, because I myself am rather an unromantic chap, and only know about these things from what I have heard on occasions like the one described above, when a last glass had caused the friend on my right to discover to me the intricacies of a prolonged flirtation of half an hour with Miss L. the evening before...