Word: friendly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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With that cool indifference and want of surprise which are found exemplified so highly in the average Harvard Senior, my friend merely took one of my cigars, and queried, "For greens...
...friend is certainly taking too tragic a view of the matter. He apparently fears that Decoration Day will rouse bitter and revengeful thoughts in the minds of the people who throng the streets to witness its yearly celebration. It needs very little knowledge of human nature to perceive that the majority of the people who appear on the streets that day come out simply and solely to enjoy themselves...
...Tugger was his real name, but a friend suggests that it is too prosaic, so I have substituted the above...
About the middle of the year No. 43 began to be the regular resort of Sam's numerous friends, for he was an affable, good-natured fellow, and I believe he had a tolerably intimate acquaintance with every man in his class. I, on the contrary, am modest and bashful, and used often to be disconcerted by the rude jests of some of our callers; but my admiration for my popular chum was so great that I would have submitted to anything for his sake. But why that chum should have chosen to give a punch...
...rooms, a line or two might be printed to the effect that the applicant desired, for his own occupation, the rooms named on the list. Each man should be required to sign this certificate as a necessary condition of being considered an applicant, and thus, at least, the "friend" system would be prevented...