Word: facings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...blinking stars, and the same picture - a print of Washington that looks like a detected eavesdropper - stares out of its ghastly frame. But it is not the same thoughtless little grisette, although at first you might pardonably mistake her for our old friend. She has the same fresh face and piquant way, she measures out yard after yard of the identical shade of crimson as her predecessor; she has her Magenta and Solferino, and now and then an April shower. If I ask her what she has read, she will break out laughing, - which speaks volumes. She never looks older...
stared the fellows in the face...
...that the students have been solicited for contributions in aid of various objects to such an extent that they now instinctively shudder when they see approaching them one of those solicitors who with eager eye and hungry look stalk abroad seeking whom they may devour, still, in the face of these facts, this article is written for the purpose of setting forth another object which will demand pecuniary aid from the students, but which has one advantage over previous one namely, that the contributors have in the end something to show for their money. The object in question...
...other vigorous writing of a practical nature, had tended to produce that desirable result. But he will insist on attaching a definite significance to that time-honored phrase of "Harvard indifference." Some one has said, "Give ear to no doctrine that has not a beard on its face." If I might be allowed to force the simile, it is in this case the whitened beard of decrepitude that points to speedy demise...
...features of an emperor's face...