Word: dents
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Fownes Bros.' and Dent's heavy gloves in furnishings room. A good line of warm Scotch wool gloves; also heavy underwear. Choice patterns of 4-in-hands. Look at our Mackintoshes and rubber coats before the next rainy day. Plenty of warm overshoes and thin rubbers...
Fownes Bros.' and Dent's heavy gloves in furnishings room. A good line of warm Scotch wood gloves; also heavy underwear. Choice patterns of 4-inhands. Look at our Mackintoshes and rubber coats before the next rainy day. Plenty of warm overshoes and thin rubbers...
...Dent's (English) heavy driving and street gloves. The styles and qualities can not be duplicated this season. The "Gants de Luxe" a specialty for full dress. Dress shirts and ties in stock. Low prices on shirts to order...
...Campanari, the well known violinist of Boston, performed finely several pieces of violin music by early masters, coming down as late as Paganini, among which were selections from Corelli, the celebrated "Dent's Tull" by Fortune, and a Burcarolle by Paganini. The next lecture will be on April 16, and will take up the two great composers, Handel and Bach...
This story did not originate at Harvard: One day not long ago a lawyer was arguing a case before the Supreme Court, and made use of the word "precedent," pronouncing it, however, with the accent on the second syllable, thus, "pre-ce-dent." Pretty soon he used the word again, and this time he gave the accent as it is usually given, on the first syllable. Justice Woods, who sits next to Justice Gray, noticing this variation in the lawyer's pronounciation, whispered to Justice Gray, "He pronounced it right the first time." Whereupon Justice Gray said, "What college were...