Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...religious paper in the West throws up its hands in horror at the ungodliness of Eastern students. "Nineteen hundred panes of glass," says one of them, "have been broken by Yale students in the two years the Woolsey was president...
...protest, as his taste is for something less invigorating. Not having the means of diluting the stuff, however, he is obliged to use it full strength, at the risk of actually becoming robust. In dining, when excessively hungry, he has been known to look at a lily in a glass of water for fully five minutes, and then waddle away and loosen his waistcoat. But such gluttony is very rare with the great aesthete, and ordinarily a hasty glance at a photograph of a sandwich is all he feels warranted in taking. By the exercise of constant care he thus...
...summary of the events of the coming week, and is more or less complete according as the law of uniformity holds. But changes are often made, and other notices given besides, that are often of considerable importance. The main official bulletins are to be found usually in the glass cases in the south entry of University and in Sever, and general reliance is placed in the former because it is the locality of the official sanctum of the faculty, and most convenient for general daily reference. But we often unexpectedly find a notice anywhere else, and frequently but one copy...
...feature of watering-place hotels next summer will be "sun-parlors," built of glass and exposed to the rays of the sun on all sides...
...them are furnished with taste and elegance, and some with great costliness. The rooms are in themselves cozy and inviting. The deep fire-place usually has queer little closets on each side, with glass doors. These, as may be readily seen, furnish great possibilities of decoration. The windows have the delicious oldfashioned window-seats, that are still more charming by being upholstered in the prevailing tint of the room, or else in brown leather, picked out in gold. If the pursuit of knowledge were ever delightful, to pursue it in one of these comfortable, roomy seats, with heavy and artistic...