Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Mast, or Life in a Barn." By Oscar Simpson. "Gully's Revenge, or a Tale of the Crossing." Author unknown. "The Drugged Doughnut, or Three Buckets of Blood." By Gasp Hard. "The Mad Butcher, or The Fate of a Yale Tutor." By the author of "Beautiful Snow." "The Dumb Singer or The Warped Tooth Brush." By Hic. Cough...
...Loring lectured in Washington last night upon cruelty to dumb animals. He severely condemned the present method of shipping cattle...
...probably the finest hall in this country, and strikingly resembles the celebrated St. George's Hall at Windsor. Five o'clock is the dinner hour. There are fifty-two tables, which are waited on by fifty-two colored waiters. The steward sits in a pulpit-like arrangement, with a dumb waiter on each side of him. The tables and chairs are of solid oak. Royal joints of ruddy roast beef and generous fare fit for manly appetites, make the Harvard "commons" about as satisfactory to the inner man as its learned and scholarly aspect to the student...
...Dreadfully sorry to have kept you waiting so long, mum; the coachman is below, mum, if you'll step this way. [Exeunt Mrs. F. and Miss C., the latter letting fall a card from her muff as she goes out. Tom, who has stopped whistling and has been standing dumb-founded, darts forward and clutches card...
...music seems a dumb lament...