Word: crossings
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Looked in sooth as cross as a bear...
THOSE who remember our temperate remarks about Western College journalism will be surprised to learn that the Chronicle (published at the University of Michigan) is aggrieved. Not only does it call the Magenta little, but overwhelms us by saying that we are cross, then calls us "coxcombs whom nature meant but fools." We regret that we are so small, and must acknowledge that if we were cross, we ought to be whipped; but at the same time, in order not to have those dreadful epithets "little" and "cross" applied to us by a paper no larger than...
...cross-roads I paused at length...
...dissatisfied with the popular art productions which disfigure so many walls, in the shape of decidedly "unpleasant" females in most unadvisable attitudes, - now clinging or "wopsing" about a cross, and now simply "gawking" at vacuity, - may not at first quite sympathize with these admirable fac-similes. The above-mentioned females, currently called Faith, Charity, Hope, or Liberty, often have a surface prettiness that must not be sought in a real work of art. Rembrandt and Durer never made pretty pictures, any more than Shakespeare wrote "nice" poetry...