Word: enoch
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Matthew Arnold reception at the Windsor Hotel a guest asked the distinguished poet if he were a relative of Benedict Arnold, and another said : "I can't tell you how delighted I have been with your poems, 'The Light of Asia' and 'Enoch Arden.' " [New York World...
Baltimore has received a gift of $1,000,000 for the establishment of a free public library. The donor is Enoch Pratt, one of the trustees of the Peabody Institute. A building to cost $225,000 and to hold 200,000 volumes is being erected. The city receives the money to use as it chooses, but in return binds itself forever to pay an annuity of $50,000 for the support of this library...
...Must be manerfactered; can't be did in no other way. I'll be durned if here ain't a book by Enoch Arden. Who'd ever s'pose that Enoch would have took to writin'? but he always was uncommon smart at school. Figer! I never see a boy figer the way he could. Addishun and substracshun was nothin' to him, and as for gogaphy he could tell every cape from Cod to Hatteras in no time. But 't is surprisin' how he got to writin...
...Where's this Enoch Arden hail from...