Word: coate
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman was noticed, on Hallow E'en, with a brick in each coat-pocket. When asked if they were to be used as implements of warfare, he said that they were mighty good things to throw away when he wanted to run fast...
Oscar Wilde lectured in New York last night to a large and fashionable audience at Chickering Hall. He was dressed in a black dress coat, white vest, an extremely low cut shirt, with flowing white silk cravat, black knee breeches, crown stockings and slippers. He chose as his subject "The English Renaissance," which he said was the work of the aesthetes. In conclusion he said: "You have all heard of those two flowers dear to the aesthete's heart, the rose and the lily. But we do not love them for the reason given by Mr. Gilbert...
...strange sound that seemed like the smile of a tombstone. Seated before the fireplace he saw a tall, lean man of about twenty-six years. He wore a large Grosvenor of an ultramarine color, with a love of a sunflower embroidered on it; his morning coat was of purple corduroy, with the collar and cuffs adorned with pansies. In his hand he held a lily which ever and anon he would smell of, at which times a look of almost angelic serenity would o'er spread his countenance. At his side there stood a small table, with a dainty...
About one hundred members of the Institute of Technology visited the Globe Theatre last night. Each one had pinned to the lappel of his coat a piece of white cardboard on which were the words. "I am not A. W. Walker." These placards were caused by the speech of Mr. Walker in a previous meeting of the students, in which he declared that it would be no less a disgrace to the Institute than to himself if the students attended the theatre in a body. Ten policemen were stationed among the students to preserve order, but in spite of them...
...heard of that bitin' lamb some of them farmers 'round New Haven 's got. They say he's a teaser; bite right thro' a man's coat and think nothin' 't all of it. Barnum's trying to git him, and if his circus comes our way, I'm goin' to see that ere lamb or bust. Here comes that cussed slow clerk...