Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...indolence gross, on the very next...
ELIZABETH GOOSE no longer exists in a gross, corporeal sense; but if it be true that our immortality consists in the place which we hold in the memory of posterity, who lives more truly than this genial lady...
...decided that the officer used unnecessary force and to have warned him for the future, the affair might now be dismissed if it were not that several of your contemporaries in their comments upon it have assumed that the students in question were a disorderly party engaged in a gross disturbance of the peace. I desire, then, to state for the information of all who are interested in the case, that the occasion which brought these young gentlemen into the city was the annual dinner of the active members of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, of which they are members...
...without resistance, and for demanding his number, instead of fighting. What language of reprobation would have been thought sufficient for their conduct by the same critics if the students had met violence with violence, I cannot conjecture. But I am sure that their manly forbearance and self-possession, under gross provocation, should secure for them the respect and commendation of every citizen who values the peace of the community...
This was recognized at once as a gross plagiarism upon a dainty poem of the Advocate. Mr. H. was visited with scorn, and replied by throwing about the spoons. At this critical state of affairs Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n emerged from under the table, and delivered the following