Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...horrible enough story, - a strange enough interpretation of a strange dream? I never saw Bertha Carlin's face again...
...face brightened visibly, for he discovered my meaning at once. 'Jest ez soon 'z I git a leetle snack o' vittles...
With a smiling face and greeting hands...
...course where good management would gladly be promised them, instead of New London, where their presence would be merely tolerated rather than welcomed. A flat refusal to superintend the proposed race on any conditions whatever was only prevented by a desire to avoid an appearance of incivility in the face of a public which could not be expected to understand the difficulties of the case. Perhaps the last straw which turned the balance was the dislike of the managers to say "No" when one of the applicants from Harvard was "a New London boy;" but they clearly kept in mind...
...believed by them to have been nearer $800. Even had the attendance of spectators been large enough to make the receipts exceed the expenses by $1,000, the managers would have been opposed to undertaking another Freshman race; but as the attendance was insignificant, in the face of the most favorable circumstances conceivable for attracting people who like to look at Freshmen, the experiment confirmed beyond hope of change the original belief of those managers. They now plainly say, "We will have no more Freshmen races at New London...