Word: droll
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...simple recall, 25f; unlimited recalls, 50f; for appearing horror-struck, 5f; murmurs of affright, as if the power to applaud were lost, 15f; a moan, followed by applause at the end of a scene of murder, 12 1/2f; ordinary laughter, 5f; bursts of laughter, 10f; exclamations - "Oh, how droll!" etc., 15f; superlative exclamations - "It is simply magnificent!" "It is unequalled!" 20f. The sifflet a succes, or "the friendly hiss," is not, we learn, supplied under 20f. The item which strikes our fancy most is the "moan followed by applause at the end" of a murder scene, for which the groanist...
...College Transcript comes to us from Ohio. It is rather more readable than most of our western exchanges. The article on the return of the Chinese students is bright and entertaining. The Fat-men's Corner contains many droll things; one or two, however, we notice that the Transcript would have done well to leave out. We would remind the editors that vulgarity is not wit, and a coarse joke is a serious blot on a college paper...