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Word: gentlemanly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...GENTLEMAN recently rode his bicycle from Charles Street, Boston, to the College Yard, across the Mill-Dam, in a little less than twenty minutes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

DEAR SIRS, - Can you give me any information in regard to the stained-glass window by Mr. Lafarge which paid us a short visit in Memorial Hall last winter? For a short while we were daily rejoiced by the spectacle of a faded young gentleman whose striking feature was a very long pair of lilac legs, and who balanced himself on the edge of (apparently) a dining-room table, as if he had suddenly felt faint and needed support. There was always a doubt in my mind whether he was Sir Philip Sidney or the Chevalier Bayard. I always supposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 4/5/1878 | See Source »

...York Times of March 16 prints a letter on boating at Harvard, which contains statements that are very unjust to the gentleman who has lately been coaching the Freshman crew. The writer of the letter states that, though the Freshman crew is now being coached by Mr. Warren Goddard, '79, he will soon have to be replaced by some one who has had more experience in boating. In the very next sentence he laments the fact that, without a coach, the crew is doing but poorly, which is just another way of saying that Mr. Goddard's work amounted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...nice young gentleman unless he were...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SARCASM OF DESTINY.* | 3/22/1878 | See Source »

...Literary World of March 1 we find an article, "The Index to the North American Review," about which we wish to say a few words. We are always glad that the merits of the Crimson should be duly appreciated, and we cannot help feeling grateful to the gentleman whose name appears at the end of the article for his flattering though somewhat peculiar tribute. He seems to have borrowed his facts from the Crimson, not merely without the least acknowledgment of indebtedness, but under his own signature. Not that his article does not bear some marks of originality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

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