Word: colds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Mine. Nilsson's "indisposition" last week was unfortunate; but the less so as it gave an opportunity of making better acquaintance with Mlle. Torriani's merits, which are very considerable. Sig. Campanini fully; realized the high expectations that had been formed of him; and though suffering from a severe cold the first few nights, he proved himself to be one of the best tenors we have had in opera for some time...
...cold corpse was discovered, all weedy...
...when the party of Sophomores visited him, made him read his Testament, and tucked him into bed? If his manly aspirations led him to drink bitter beer and the choking hot brandy-and-water, was it not as good for him as a temperance lecture to be doused in cold water and left to dry? Did not, in short, the Sophomore take the place of a mother to him and frequently perform the functions of the previous maternal supervision? But, it may be said, however this was, the Sophomores were certainly not the men to exercise this restraint. The belief...
...these first cold days, when the falling snow covers grass and trees, and the dark clouds seem to threaten a long storm, it is quite amusing to notice the different remarks with which men greet this earnest of winter. Some say, "A little more of this will give us very fair sleighing;" others, "How pretty it makes the Yard look!" but most declare with a sigh, "Now for wet feet and cold rooms and frozen ears." When we think of the number of this last class, it really seems worth while to consider whether winter could not be made...
...most disagreeable things we must look forward to is a cold room; but we should not have nearly so much to complain of on this score if we would only throw up our windows now and then, and not try to raise the temperature of an atmosphere of carbonic-acid gas and tobacco-smoke. If we observe this simple rule, and are not very unfortunate in our choice of a room, we cannot deny that there is hardly any time so good for studying as a bright winter morning, or any time so good for reading as the "tumultuous privacy...