Word: generally
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...General, your minister. Let me introduce you," replied my friend; and in an instant later I had been presented to the General...
...General looked at me for a moment in silent and misanthropic sadness; then he remarked, "Young man, take a drink." His conversation, by the way, was garnished with hiccoughs. I declined the drink with thanks...
...Nonsense," said the General. "A couple of fingers won't hurt you. Come along!" And he poured out a glass of brandy with melancholy dignity, handed it to me, filled his own glass, expectorated once more, and tossed it off. A few moments of silence followed. Then he addressed me again and asked me where I lived. I told him that I was a Harvard student...
...just to say that the General has recently been relieved by a gentleman who is really worthy of the name; but as I have described him, he walked about Lisbon for months, as the accredited representative of the United States. And when I remember my first night in Lisbon, I cannot but smile at the complaints of those who think a pamphlet on Poker ruinous to the dignity of an American minister...
...hours will be spent in translating them. In journalism phonography plays an important part in its own department. No newspaper can be conducted without its corps of stenographers. They always command a high salary, and good workmen are always in employment, words requires all his attention, and it is generally the case that he cannot give any account whatever of the lecture, without referring to his notes. Thus it is obvious that the phonographer does not have the opportunity of increasing his general knowledge; that he cannot easily become the practical man that a successful editor must...