Word: chuzzlewit
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Dies anniverii erat equalis expectationibus. Habebamus, facto, altum antiquum tempus. President erat presens, Clevelandus appellatus, Democraticus vir; et innumeri reportores et interviewores newspaperum. Lowellus - unus, ut tuns immortalis Chuzzlewit dixit, "notissimorum hominum in hac republica" - speechificavit speechum non malum; et Clivarius Wendell Holmesius cepit opportunitatem recitare, longum poema, concoctum pro occasione; sed nenter horum erat in Latino, gratiae ad coelum! Non sumus mors-super Latino bic. Prefer amus linguam Americanam, vel, ut vos prave dicitis, Anglicam...
...Pickwick." After a careful investigation of accounts, Talfourd made an elaborate calculation during the publication of "Nicholas Nickleby" by which it appeared that for three years previously Dickens ought to have been making L10,000 a year out of his writings. The circulation of the monthly parts of "Martin Chuzzlewit" fell to 25,000 a month from a circulation of 40,000 a month obtained by "Pickwick" and "Nickleby." This best of his books was the least successful of all his works on first publication, and, I believe, brought him the least money. So far as I remember, L7000...
...most desirable things of a college course. In past years the relations of student and instructor was far from cordial or pleasant; they both looked upon one another as something to be avoided, and seemed to think that their desires and purposes were completely opposed. "Progress," as Chuzzlewit's friend says, "has to a great extent removed this erroneous idea." Year by year student and teacher have continued to make advances toward each other, until they have now come to regard one another as valued friends, from whom much can be gained in the social intercourse out of the class...