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Word: cosier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1883-1883
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...heavy fine for indulging in this pursuit, and Judge Ladd threatened the next offender brought before him with three weeks in jail. We doubt if even the sign-stealer, with his fine sense of the ludicrous, would like to change his pleasant Holworthy room for the even cosier quarters of Charles-Street jail. Not only this, but the Cambridgeport policemen-misguided beings-unappreciative of little but important differences to which the student mind is keen, look upon sign-stealing as anything but humorous, and have taken to shooting at "sign-raggers." The huge joke of sign-stealing does not come...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/13/1883 | See Source »

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