Word: fashion
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...manly. No pluckier thing has been done in Harvard athletics for many a year than the creation of this year's nine out of the material afforded. There has been an honest effort to make the best out of unfavorable circumstances and to represent the University in creditable fashion at least. This has been done, and we feel that there is occasion rather to thank Captain Wiggin and his men for what they have succeeded in doing than to disparage them because they did not meet with fuller success. A loyalty which is sincere will be appreciative of good work...
...which Morocco succeeded-hence Cordovannier, cordonnier, cordwainer. Cant perpetuates a sneer against the monks who did no work but singing-cantabant, Hocus-pocus again satirizes their ignorance, and also contains a sly Protestant laugh at the Catholic mystery of transubstantiation-hoc est corpus. That wigs were originally a French fashion is plain enough in the word itself-first corrupted from perruque to periwig, and then contracted for convenience to wig. Chouse, in the sense of to cheat, carries us back to the days of James First, when an impostor palmed himself off upon the people of London as a Turkish...
...teams. It would of course be desirable if an arrangement were made practicable, whereby not even the class teams had to rely partly on subscriptions; but, as that is out of the question this year, it only remains for us to discover what will maintain the teams in creditable fashion, and, once convinced that a certain sum is really needed, to contribute our individual shares without hesitation...
...certain kind, and used them to the full; but the power to impress other men does not depend on girth, or stature, or avoirdupois. Napoleon and Nelson, Garrick and Kean, were little men, yet did not their individualities find suitable means of expression, each in its proper fashion? Just so may that of every other man if he only uses the means with which God has thought fit to endow him; but he can no more trim the natural power within him to a pattern than he can alter his stature. Each man is different from his fellows...
...thing; and as it is good form to wear this sack with other trousers, you have practically two suits. The rough, soft finished goods for cutaways and frocks are not economical; but there are many materials which are rough enough to be "in it" will wear well and the fashion of long skirt can easily be rermodeled if the fashion changes. Therefore a moderately rough cutaway or frock, of good material, will be good economy...