Word: guilelessly
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...cooked by their own fair hands. The young ladies of this high seat of learning are, no doubt, partisans of Mr. Hendricks' who seems to be a favorite with the gentler sex, and they would like to see that staunch Democrat in the Presidential chair. It was a guileless, girlish plot. The President-elect, being too busy to eat that cake will live...
...when the boasted progress in athletics is in the direction of fraud and deceit." Probably the annals of debate among intelligent men will show nothing richer or fresher than this. Brothers Nichols of Harvard and Moffat of Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert...
There is a shade of romance somewhere in the guileless soul of the undergraduate, a longing for the unattainable, perhaps, which suddenly develops itself at the approach of the opera season in particular; this was recognized by the "powers that be," and, with the readiness to supply all actual needs which characterizes all their actions, this branch of the college was founded and liberally endowed...
...gentle freshman he, a guileless...
...guileless and innocent, stepped into the office of the Co-operative Society the other day, and calling the gentlemanly assistant aside asked in a whisper if he could purchase a literal translation of Livy, vulgarly known as a "trot." Being answered in the affirmative, he requested that it should be carefully wrapped up, and with many an anxious glance around, fearing his wicked purchase had been seen, he slunk away...