Word: coats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...there is one thing I hate more than another, - I say thing, as the word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet...
...SHORT time ago, several of us started a Heraldry Club, and, as a first step in the formation of the Club, each one described such a coat of arms as was most pleasing to his taste. The Club never advanced beyond this first step, but a report of their proceedings at the first and only meeting they ever had may be interesting. After calling the meeting to order, the President asked the Boating-man for his coat of arms. "Well, Mr. President, I would put on a navy-blue field two eight-oared shells; in the fore-ground one with...
...President now said that as the Dig was prevented from attending on account of study, he would read the Dig's coat of arms for him. "Mr. President, I would have on my shield a representation of Commencement Day, and I should be delivering the best speech given for years; on one side, supporting the shield, would be a degree, summa cum laude; on the other, the President handing me a tutorship in Greek; for a motto, 'Conquer the Greek particle...
...This coat of arms was greeted with jeers, and it was suggested he had better go and paste a piece of paper over himself...
...next day I went in, dressed in calling costume, - black coat, &c., - and was met by a chorus of disapprobation. "How ungraceful these modern garments are! Why did n't you wear something flowing?" I mildly suggested that I had nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and that I had not undertaken to make a guy of myself. So the class proceeded to array me in various garments belonging to the studio. A piece of embroidered mummy cloth was draped artistically over me, like a Roman toga; a sort of parti-colored cap, like those found in snapping...