Word: home
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...coming out from Boston. When you spend the night with your uncle on Commonwealth Avenue, do not come out before ten. Grinder takes the half-past-eight car every morning; he lives at his home in East Chelsea, and has a nine-o'clock recitation - which he never cuts - every day in the week, as he takes twenty-eight hours of electives this year. An exception may be made of Monday morning, when Mr Beck, of Beacon Street, refreshed by his devotions at Trinity, takes the nine-o'clock car, to the great delight of his parents, - and then plays...
...evening cars, which you are most interested in, take none before twelve; from ten to eleven the same ignorant creatures who get to the theatre early rush home again. You, of course, will always take a little supper at Ober's, and then one of the late cars; the company is not, generally, quiet or perfectly select, but you will always find a few "swell...
...evident he was suffering from the effects of a recent fall. Swan gradually but surely decreased the distance between himself and Sturgis. Sturgis rode a brave race. On the last quarter of the last lap they were neck and neck, and, as they came driving down the home stretch, the excitement was intense, the cries of each man's friends resounding loud and long. They crossed the finish the same second, Swan leading by not more than six inches. Time...
THERE are pleasures in a Bowdoin prize. It gives the winner grandeur in the eyes of Freshmen, and a wonderful reputation among his maiden aunts and country cousins; and the money in these hard times is decidedly convenient in making one's cash account balance with remittances from home...
...leave the fair one to be taken home...