Word: fabric
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...interruption, "to forsake their warm rooms and their cosy fires, they may sometimes be persuaded to grace a ball-room with their presence; but as for paying visits on ladies from whom they have received attention, they generally neglect them. If the truth be known, the entire social fabric is sustained by the votive offerings of the ladies...
Although Sumner frequently cut prayers, especially in his Senior year, he attended recitations regularly. His only recorded interview with the Faculty was on the subject of dress. The regulations prescribed a waistcoat of "black mixed, or black; or, when of cotton or linen fabric, of white." Sumner persisted in wearing a buff-colored waistcoat, and, when summoned, stoutly maintained that it was white, or, at least, white enough for all practical purposes. He won his point, and the subject was dropped...
...lower classes, indeed! And, pray, who are the lower classes? Are they those whose hardy forms, made strong and firm by the noble labor for which the body of man was made, support the great fabric of the state, which the puny Sybarite would helplessly allow to fall asunder? Are they those whose active minds, unsullied by the thoughts and traditions, which the Old World has left behind as eternal monuments of its infamy, find in themselves the germs of truth, disregard the plaints of the timorous observer of the past, and proudly direct the course of the ship...