Word: flouring
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...fill their columns with the nonsense characteristic of the occasion. If an address on the "Ramifications of the Forensic Hyperbla," relying for its wit on poor spelling and lack of punctuation, be a sample of the performances, we cannot wonder that impromptu diversions in the way of bean and flour contests were acceptable to the audience. For a real "jolly wow" give us a Yale merrymaking...
...ought to have an abundance of dime novelists: but why parties should deliberately continue to advertise in organs of colleges most opposed to any "mixing," such articles as "Wilson's Sewing-Machine," "Bonnets and Cloaks," and the like, we do not see. Nor is it plain why Grain, Flour, and Feed Stores, Meat Depots, Savings Banks, and Life Insurance Companies should find it for their interest to do this thing. We nowhere find advertisements of the Philosopher's Stone, or of the Circular Square; but we do read of "wholesome pie," which falls into the same category. Attorneys...