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...like St. Simon Shylites, withdraw from the society of mankind and sit on the top of a pillar because of our criminal laws. Foot-ball can never be anything but a rough, manly sport. For my part I am unwilling to believe that any such low spirit has crept into the game so as to make it dishonest and vicious...
...changes made in the tariff rates by the act passed last week are for the most part indicative of a more liberal policy. The duties are lowered on many articles by this bill, and many errors and irregularities which had crept into the duty list have been rectified. On the whole, the bill is the first point of the gradual change of sentiment which has been gaining ground throughout the country...
...crept closer to him, till her bright head was pillowed on his chest. Was it still a girlish jest, a girlish freak...
...vigorous crusade has been set on foot lately, against that outgrowth of young Americanism, "slang," which has crept even into busy Lasell, and, strange to say, has seemed to find congenial soil, for it has flourished, as ill weeds proverbially do. On a general confession, it has been discovered, that every member of the school, with but one exception, is guilty of the use of slang, in a greater or less degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with...
...that sweet innocence whose dead smile crept...