Word: headful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...claret would always go to his head...
...other apparatus which we do not find here at present. That most useful exercise, too, of swinging the Indian clubs would be more tempting to the embryo Hercules if there were space for him to indulge in it without being in imminent danger either of splitting open the head of a bystander as the ponderous club swiftly descends, or of meeting a like fate at the hands of another. Room, then, and the consequent increase in the variety of apparatus, is what is needed...
...truly popular poet) in the world of literature. At first, we, in the benighted East, saw the new-born poet only through a cloud of shapeless rumors and perverted facts; but at length the mist cleared away, and disclosed the figure of a tall man, wearing upon his head a great slouched hat, and thrown across his shoulders a United States army blanket, fiercely stroking his mustaches, and pointing with a gleaming knife at an open volume of poems. This was Joaquin Miller. "I give you my honor, sir, that he was born of a half-breed and a Mexican...
Lifted again its drooping head...
...futile hopes have been raised, reform, here needed if at all, is inactive. A plan is rumored of, to give those men whose perpetual standing is eighty per cent, or thereabouts, the privilege of voluntary attendance at recitations. We speak with the highest possible respect for the men who head our rank-lists, when we call this a throwing of pearls before swine. We regard such a course, as the elder Mr. Weller did the sending of flannel "veskits" to the young niggers who would have no possible use for them. But this extravagant waste of unappreciated cuts will...