Word: coyness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...issued, no information sent to the newspapers, no entry lists forwarded for publication. No games ever given in New York city received such scant preliminary notice. Possibly the committee were stupid ; perhaps they were restrained by that haughty disregard for common people which saturates so many undergraduates; maybe the coy contestants shrank from exposing their scantily-clothed limbs to the critical gaze of an indiscriminate assembly. But from whatever cause, the fact remains that the games were miserably advertised. Making a liberal allowance for complimentary and competitors' tickets, the assembly could not have exceeded 1,500. This 1,500 represented...
...operative Society desires to extend its usefulness by inveigling into the meshes the inoffending Annex. The Annex with coy blushes is somewhat diffident about accepting the offer of the society. It is thought, however, that with a little urging by the society the Annex may be induced finally to consent. At one time the Annex endeavored to secure for itself from the college certain privileges in the use of the library, but its request was summarily refused. It is therefore thought that by voluntarily extending to it the privileges of its membership the Co-operative Society, a body representing...
...going through the College Yard (here Miss Meeker reached convulsively for her smelling-bottle), all the young men were coming out. They kept looking at me, and one of them said to another, 'coy, coy.' Was that Latin, auntie...
...Tootsy opened her hazel-nut orbs in astonishment, and said, "You use some kind of hair preparation." This would have floored an ordinary man, but the representative of '84 went on undisturbed. "I never bat; in fact, none of my class-mates do." "Ah!" said she, in her sweet, coy way, "you have no Freshman nine. How nice that is, base ball is such a dangerous game!" He paid no attention to this remark, but continued, "I have no taste for the convivial life which many lead at college. I have a dog, you know; he and myself never part...
...flirts no more with coy coquettes...