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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Briggs, '85, instead of Mr. Bolles, L. S., drew the cartoon of "The AEsthetic Image Vender," in the last Lampoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 2/11/1882 | See Source »

...clique of New Yorkers, through an agent in that city, made overtures for bribing city councils and the newspapers, $50,000 in cash and $1,000,000 in bonds being set aside for corruption purposes, and that the agent fell into the snares of the street car managers, who drew out of him all the details of his scheme...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/9/1882 | See Source »

...second question, 'Why not teach boys as well as young women to cook?' drew forth the response that the lecturer heartily approved of such a plan, and had actually taught a class at Harvard." - [From a report of a lecture by Miss Parloa...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NOTES AND COMMENTS. | 1/25/1882 | See Source »

...striking fact that many plays that are well received in Boston meet with but little success elsewhere. This was well seen in "The Colonel," which drew crowded houses at the Museum, and in many other cities, Philadelphia especially, was a dismal failure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 1/9/1882 | See Source »

...street; and in the pauses of the wind one could hear the sea beating against the worm-eaten old piers. The inhabitants of Posett came to the windows and looked out into the darkness, and knowingly observed that it would be "worse afore it was done with." So they drew the curtains and shut in the cheerful radiance of their own warm firesides...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POSETT EPISODE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

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