Word: hand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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97Look at 436 Harvard Street.-Best tennis English caps, 75c.; tennis shirts, $1.50; tennis flannel pants, $2; tennis silk belts, 75c.; tennis shoes, 90c.; Ayer's balls, 37c. Peck & Snyder and Wright & Ditson's rackets constantly on hand. J. F. Noera...
Tennis!-Just received by steamer Pavonia, ten pieces English stripped flannel; 52 dozen fancy stripped caps, all colors, 10 dozen cloth helmets. We keep constantly on hand a large assortment of white flannel. Wright & Ditson rackets, Peck & Snyder rackets and balls, Ayer's tennis balls. New style of straw hats, tennis shoes, nets, blazers, cheviot shirts, French flannel shirts, etc. We fill orders at very short notice. All our goods are made on our our premises. We guarantee a perfect fit, as well as goods. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street...
...chastened by their past. The story is not altogether sombre, however, though one might reasonably ask that a little more cheerfulness had been scattered here and there throughout a tale essentially sad. Alf Escott is the only really cheerful figure, and what one sees of him at first hand is very telling in its lightening effects; but the book is so largely a narrative in the past tense, and the incidents in Escott's life are so persistently unfortunate, that one thinks more on his broken existence and wasted talents than on the bravery, modesty and evenness-almost recklessness...
...merely, but continually, and with an even, level temper which looks as if the writer had kept carefully within the limits of what was positively attainable. One gets an idea, that is to say, that the next novel one may have the good fortune to receive from the same hand will be even better than this...