Word: headful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...without a thought of publics or of suspensions, but with a sigh that by his unnatural employment he had cut himself adrift from all who had any right to fall upon his neck and greet him - hic - dear old fellow; the same old dinner-procession, whose dignified, slow-moving head gave no indication of the riotous life displayed by its swaying tail; and finally, the ancient scholar was there, who every year nobly refuses his dinner, that he may spend the afternoon in exhorting the lazy scapegraces lolling in the halls and on the grass to persevere in polite studies...
With stringless bow and shivered arrow-head...
...soon passed on to a hotter room, and left me in a melting solitude. After half an hour of decomposition I was summoned by a thinly clad attendant to another and a cooler cell. I joyfully followed him, leaving the fat old gentleman rubbing the bare crown of his head and complaining that the "rooms were only half heated...
Amply suggestive of what we are saying is the recently issued Report of the Labor Bureau, which lies before us. At the head of this Bureau is General Oliver, of '5.2, whose work is to gather statistics regarding "the various departments of labor, and the social and educational condition of the laboring classes." With the return of peace no greater questions are pressing themselves on the attention of public men than those which come within the scope of this Bureau. One of the weightiest of these to be answered by the coming generations is the relation of Capital and Labor...
They rage above his head...