Word: gotten
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...risk of being charged with repetition, I should like to express my disapprobation of the time of the Spring Recess. I think the Faculty would willingly change the time, if a petition could be gotten up showing the desire for a later vacation, especially as Fast Day comes so early this year, and by having the vacation a week later we could participate in the Easter festivities at home...
...should like to take your paper; but I think the other is gotten up in better style. With its clean white cover, and table of contents and other ornaments, it looks less like a country college paper and more like a magazine...
...iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer into bare, tare, and stare. The provincial and antiquated gotten is paraded forth in all its whilom beauty and usefulness by the simple and guileless Westerner, while the meek and humble it is made to pay a much heavier part than it was ever intended...
...having heard that Eastlake furniture was the fashion, he employed somebody or other to get up his rooms regardless of expense, and that at this moment he is not able to tell half so much about his own furniture as you can. My old Smith's room was magnificently "gotten up" by a millionnaire upholsterer from New York, but as household art had not been invented at that time, it was full of gilding and bright color. And when I tell you that it contained no less than seven distinct and antagonistic shades of red, you will understand...
...VARIETY entertainment was given by the Memorial waiters at Lyceum Hall last Wednesday evening. The performance was, on the whole, spirited, and moderately successful. Tambourine and Bones were gotten up with the usual profusion of mouth, from which came conundrums, songs, and jokes with more than the usual liveliness. The songs were for the most part good; but the audience had some difficulty in finding out why Moses was like a bull-rusher. The dancing was a striking success, and the little farce was perhaps as good as anything. A little more practice and a little more attention to their...