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Word: confusionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1873-1873
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It is probable that we have had a representative color much longer than since 1859; and as the sanguinary magenta has come into existence since that date, it is reasonable to suppose that our former color was, what is now often attributed to us, crimson. On the respective merits of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR COLORS. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

The laurel cross and wreaths surmounting the black hangings, behind and above the pulpit, and the dark drapery festooned along the galleries and caught up alternately by boughs of evergreen and by calla-lilies, gave to the whole Chapel an air of mourning, and yet of hopeful and of almost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FUNERAL OF AGASSIZ. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

Is not 'confusion worse confounded' made

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Books. | 11/7/1873 | See Source »

PERHAPS there is no saying more fitted for Americans than this. We are likely to mistake bustle for business, precipitation for progress. In her struggle for equality with nations that have had the maturity of centuries, America has partially lost sight of the dignity which is one of their leading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FESTINA LENTE. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

THE Williams Review, in an editorial, gives an account of and discusses the late boating convention. In an appreciative manner and a very amusing style, it depicts the disgraceful confusion that there prevailed. The performance it describes as consisting of two pieces, - a carefully prepared farce, entitled "The Packed Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Our Exchanges. | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

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