Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Verdant Green must have felt at his first wine party. He had been invited by a friend to meet a few men, and have a quiet talk over a glass of wine, and he had prepared himself accordingly, and in dress coat and white tie, he went prepared to hear edifying discussions and profound deductions from the data gathered during years of hard study. To his surprise, on entering a room, filled with smoke and men dressed in every variety of costume, from dressing jacket to cricket flannels, the conversation ran on entirely different subjects. "Would Brazen Nose 'bump...
...most mysterious body; its birth and growth were always surrounded with a certain air of secrecy, and, finally, after every one has forgotten that it was still in existence, with a crow of delight it proclaims an established constitution, to be immediately hushed up lest outsiders should hear of such shameful doings. Numbers of players, not tournament men, would be glad to join the society if they knew something more certain about it, but while they feel that no redistribution of courts is probable this season, although the association is said to have received full control of the grounds...
...does not like it." I wondered why, but said nothing. "And if you put the woman in the middle," he continued, "it bothers her to keep up the conversation; she is obliged to do all the 'running,' because if you talk to her the other man cannot hear, and vice versa; but," he continued with a smile, "if you sit between them yourself she can talk to the other man with her eyes and her mouth and make love to you with her elbow, and if you have never had any experience I cannot describe to you the amount...
...leaped and plunged and frolicked in the shallow water, showing as unmistakable signs of fun as kittens show in their play. Their actions were very droll, and the shrill chorus of little voices that grew in number as the sun sloped to the west, was extremely pleasant to hear. They are, perhaps, of the same stock as the ancient Greek frogs; at any rate, they performed the very music written by the old master of comedy - "brek-e-kek-ex-co-ax-co-ax - brek-e-kek-ex-co-ax-co-ax." - [Cambridge Tribune...
...bursting the seams in my waistcoat, which is getting tremendously tight, and having seen my friend safely launched, let me tell you what I can about these people. There are two women I know by the window; they are talking about somebody, and if you like "feminities" you will hear something interesting from that standpoint, I am sure. One of them is a grass-widow (cause, spiritual incompatibility), and the other is a bona fide widow (cause, a few years' bad cookery with digestive powers in favor of the lady now before you). They are talking about Mrs. De Sorosis...