Word: done
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...thing was needed to make him perfect, he must be proved to be the perpetrator of crimes, - and that was done; he had been the leader of a band of robbers, everybody asked him to dinner; he had been accused of murder, his reputation was established. His poetry, which was by no means bad, found its way across the water, where he was received by John Bull as a new phenomenon of American life. Meanwhile, the critics were as kind as they could have been if bribed; they occupied themselves more harmlessly than ever before or since, - they sorted...
...attained undue publicity by finding a place in the columns of the Evening Post has induced us to give it some attention. A just criticism generally has a healthy tendency, and ought to go far toward correcting those faults which it censures. But an incomplete statement of facts, whether done willingly or ignorantly, a slight investigation where a thorough one is needed, the consideration of a question where prejudice is drawn upon more than common-sense, and from certain premises to draw conclusions entirely foreign to the subject discussed, - are in themselves indications of a lack of valid objections...
...could only see my hair, done a la Pompadour...
...author, by the by, says, "This easy and familiar old pronunciation is done away with, in favor of a new and foreign-sounding style." Is it not well to change the wrong for the right? And does not it seem natural that the language of foreigners long dead should sound foreign...
These, then, are our long-looked-for reforms. A resignation by the Sophomores of their time-honored prerogatives; forty cents' worth of old examination-papers done up in book-form; the right to smoke in the holy precincts of the Yard without scandalizing the feelings of some conscientious proctor; and as a climax to this remarkable category, men who are averse to cuts, and have been heard audibly to growl when an occasional one has been given, are to be informed that they may cut whenever they please...