Word: droning
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the last hearth fire drowses to the drone...
People can be classified under three heads, which will get rid of the objectionable "fascinating". There are "linnets" (this is highly complimentary and has a pleasanter sound than "fascinating" anyway); there are 'pones" (this combines all the contemptuousness of "drone" with the heavy odium of "prune"); and there are "grusks" (any man would curl up and wither if he were called a "grusk" out of a clear...
This humble desire to have one's name perpetuated is very noble, and all the industry, toil, and diligence applied in the whittling very praiseworthy. The melodious drone of the instructor and the sleepy quiet of the drowsy students are strong incentives, perhaps, for all this extra-curriculum work; for, as Sir Thomas Browne once said, "To strenuous minds there is an inquietude in over quietness, and no laboriousness in labor...