Word: cow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their own, as I noticed when I went to their annual "Phil" on Friday evening by invitation of a tempting "cousin." In addition to the ordinary slang of girlhood, their vocabulary is still further extended. I gazed wonderingly and rather vacuously perhaps when my cousin said: "Look at that cow. What do you think of its lace?" I could not see any cow, but only an extremely pretty girl with some transparent, interwoven. fluffy stuff around her neck. Later I found that in the Vassar girl's classification all males are "men," and all females "cows," with the usual intensive...
...party of Princeton students will visit Texas next summer to study the flora of that State. The Chicago Tribune prophesies a bad season, consequently, for the cow-boys...
...average undergraduate poem seems to me to possess any of the characteristics of so-called true poetry. The undergraduate poet rhapsodizes over a ditch bordered by hummocks of meadow-grass and clumps of scrubby, unsightly bushes; he goes into ecstasies over a frog-pond in a cow pasture; he personifies familiar objects; invests them with a glamour of brilliant colors, and imagines various noble fancies about them, or draws high lessons from their imagined actions or feelings, - what more does the true poet? In short, in criticising poetry it is hard to say just where sentiment leaves off, and sentimentalism...