Word: gets
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Halloo!" said I, "where did you get all these ashes on your hat and coat, and what in the name of all that's good makes your hands so black...
...half in dreamland and wholly confused, I spring upon the train The wheels once more revolve, and I turn to go in, - no door! I rub my eyes, and discover, but too late, that I am between the tender and the baggage-car, with no refuge on either side; get into the car I cannot; to climb over the piled-up wood of the tender is impossible. I give up my hat to a sudden blast of wind. Now comes a demoniac shower of fire, - the grate is open ! A swarthy Vulcan rakes the ashes, and another throws...
...Then how is it that you 've got your hat now? " There was a suspicious twinkle in his eye as he answered." All in good time, my dear fellow. I'll explain that to your satisfaction by and by - If we go on this way we shall get to hair-splitting, which is unprofitable, you know. Don't ask irrelevant and awkward questions, but let me go on with my story. Where was I ? O yes. Well, I pulled out a handkerchief, and with both hands dusted the sparklets from my face and shoulders. At last, thank Heaven, they shut...
...minute, at half past nine, as they do now at nine. But this very thing would show that the late hour is desired, since so many men improve the extra time thus given them. No one wants the doors kept open half an hour longer simply that he may get there half an hour before they are closed. The question, at any rate, is not one for the Directors to decide. Let it be put to the vote of the members...
...Rifle Club is sadly in need of encouragement. At the present time there are hardly enough men practising to make a team, to say nothing of picking one. We urge strongly every man who enjoys shooting to become a member and to practise continuously, in order that Harvard may get together a team which will do her credit in the contests that are expected to take place during the year...