Word: cool
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...cool May evening at Oberlin. The students were sitting under the trees singing hymns or playing squat-tag and blind-man's-buff on the campus. Here and there a kindly-faced professor might be seen playing puss-in-the-corner with a merry group of girls, a copy of OEdipus peeping out of one of his pockets and a Revised New Testament out of another. But one by one the happy revellers ceased their sport, and in parties of two or three withdrew to their respective dormitories...
...rooms, or rather closets, with scarcely space to move round. Added to all this, the mattresses furnished were worn-out truck taken from an old steamboat. There was no shade around the place, and the house becoming very warm during the day, it was midnight before it became sufficiently cool to allow one to get to sleep. It is safe to say that no man got a good night's rest while at the quarters. The cramped dining-room immediately adjoining the kitchen was so hot that the men usually removed their coats before sitting down to a meal...
...tired, though inclined to quiet. Cool...
...since the Quizzical Club has kindly invited me to speak to them to-night on the subject of Tennyson, having ascertained that the great poet is at the Isle of Wight for the season, and not likely to return before his anger has had time to cool, I will endeavor, to the best of my ability, to disclose to you his personal habits and his characteristic mental traits...
...being in love, when his heart don't palliate with divine commotion for his "hairy, fairy Lillian," as he calls this woman: but think of it, Mr. Brimstone, he says she's lost both arms! Now how under the sun am I going to give her destruction in the cool and airy art if she's got no arms? Likely she has no hand too! I consume she has two hooks by way of appendixes on the stumps. Two hooks are no good to make bread with. Still, I suppose, when Isaac brings her home, she can pull taffy...