Word: hang
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about marriage, a few pages further on, while writing to a friend who had become engaged. "I am sensible," he remarks philosophically "that everything depends on the light in which we view it, and nothing more so than marriage. If you think of that weariness which must at times hang over every kind of society, those disgusts and vexations which will happen in the intercourse of life, you will be frightened to take upon you the serious charge of the father of a family; but if you think of the comforts of a home, where you are a sort...
...front the unwilling eye of day; faces mutilated into every shape into which the human countenance can be bruised or flattened or slashed or puffed or putrified,-such is the sight which greets the visitor upon his entrance to the Paris Morgue: for immediately in front of the entrance hang two large frames in which are displayed the photographs of the unclaimed dead, photographs taken from the drenched corpses, as they lay upon the rude beds which the Morgue assignees to its guests. And such another collection of portraits the world does not contain. Death and Vice have become joint...
...sheepskin" again; the police squad made as fitting a preface to our delegation as did '88 form an appropriate finis; everyone was pleased; everything was propitious; the streets were dry, and-so were we. Let us congratulate ourselves on our luck in weather and jollity, and then hang our "plugs" upon the wall, for it would, perhaps, be useless to try them on this morning; and then let our college life run on again in its customary channels. The great parade of '84 was a glorious success; let it be long remembered...
...Hang such mud, anyway! Three cheers for the house on the right, 750 times! Ditto for house on left, 700 times! Ladies in the balcony fifty each! Ladies with Roman candles, three! Contemplative peeler on left, one! Bully for the man who treated to coffee...
...fact that the Hasty Pudding Club gave a smaller sum to the boat club, than that given the year before, and that the PI Eta theatricals, which last year yielded $278, were not given at all. It is greatly to be pitied that such a debt should hang over the boat club, which is our leading athletic interest. At Yale, where the yearly expenses are equal to ours, the finances of the boat club are in a flourishing state. I have made inquiries and I find that the trouble over raising and collecting subscriptions, and all talk against "subscription friends...