Word: conceit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Harvard students are intemperate or licentious The Harvard man is really not so very aristocratic after all. At heart he is pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door...
...into the soul of our erring brother. But now in some unaccountable manner we have stirred up the solemn indignation of the Chronicle, and consequently we find ourselves confronted with a most severe and formidable lecture from our Ann Arbor friends upon the sins of sectional prejudice and local conceit. That same native vigor and rude energy of style which we found so remarkable in the case of the Review, is equally striking in the case of the Chronicle: therefore we have been led to connect, after the fashion of cause and effect, this mental malady (so characterized by illusion...
...Junior's Recipe for "Man Cake." - 1 cup of conceit, 3 cups of flattery, 1/3 cup of brains, 2 cups of self-esteem, 1 cup of small talk. Mix with a little "cash;" when done stir in a little love of notoriety, and you have the man of the present age. - [Lasell Leaves...
...Chelsea faience. Going up stairs one finds a fair collection of paintings, a pleasant relief from the black and white exhibit just left. Among the most noticeable, are a saloon picture, by Chester Loomis, a well handled figure-piece by the French artist, Doyen, and lastly, a happy conceit, by Boston's young artist, Gaugengige. Last to be visited, the oldest of Boston's art stores, is that of Williams & Everett; here can be seen three pictures owned by a Boston gentleman, who is said to have paid $25.000 for them. The largest one is a characteristic sketch by Detaille...
Piercing with pen your queer conceit's cuirass...