Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Shoemaker rejoined on the affirmative that the charges against Mr. Blaine must be received with caution, because no public man ever ran for President without being accused of gross corruption. It was so with Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Garfield. Mr. Blaine is a most popular man, and a most fit man for the office of President. He is a man of genius, and one of the greatest orators and statesmen this country ever produced. I should like to see a mugwump who could write a book as Mr. Blaine did, and sell half a million copies in three years. They...
...cases where the offence was slight or caused by some accident, the librarian has always been very lenient; it is only the cases of gross, inexcusable carelessness, that the punishment is inflicted to its full extent...
...historic accuracy, the theological quality, the bad taste, the gross impertinence of such a poem as this, delivered in such circumstances, there can be but one opinion among considerate men; the affair belongs to that class of performances which has been wittily described as an indecent exposure of private opinions...
...then nobody expects "historic accuracy" in a poem any more than in a religious newspaper, and as to "theological quality, bad taste, and gross impertinence," they are the last things in the world to which religious newspapers should wish to allude, if the accounts which these journals give of each other be at all correct. - Evening Post...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - It seems to be an act of gross injustice that English VI is to be omitted next year. Possibly there may be good reasons for such action on the part of our "guardians," but if so we should at least be allowed to know what they are. Here is the present junior class cut off from all chance of taking such a course, - a course which from its usefulness has become very popular. We have been waiting patiently till we should become seniors, in order that we might have the manifest advantage of just such instruction...