Word: cutenesses
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...column, which appears in a well-known Boston newspaper, the "Bright Sayings of Children" are often printed for the amusement of their elders. Any parent may earn a dollar by submitting to the editor of this column a "cute" remark which his, or her, off-spring has perpetrated. One infantile query is the following: "Mother, if there are seven hundred jars of jam in the house, why can't I have one of them"? A pertinent question. The undergraduate, in search of the sweets of knowledge, might ask the same: "If there are a million and a half books...
...thuggish" role to which he is best suited. In the first act he tries to punch the other man's jaw; in the second he gets drunk; and in the third he goes mad. Where-upon the Spearmint-chewing lady who sits behind you murmurs, "He's just too cute for anything." Mr. Kemble is down on the program as "supporting" Mr. Edeson, but to him must go the honors of the evening. He played the part of Truth's guardian, defended her with more than fatherly zeal through all her matrimonial indiscretions...
...green grass, glancing seaward over a stretch of lighter green water, so natural that one longs for summer to come again that he may experience the reality. The pose of the figure is most graceful, being relieved by a light airy summer dress, dainty gloves a la Bernhardt, a cute little pair of opera glasses, listlessly held, and a love of a poke bonnet...
...from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute; and if I did n't jest lay over him, my name ain't Jaunty Tucker. Hoss died on his hands two months after I sold...
...Square leaped into the great river, and was drowned; but Cute lived and was honored, and well beloved of the great parents, Munnee and Boshor...