Word: hoosier
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...October number of the Century contains the conclusion of the Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, which for several months has been a feature of the magazine. The frontispiece, a portrait of the veteran actor, goes with the article. Edward Eggleston turns from tales of Hoosier schoolmasters and of Yankee life to describe "Out of the Ways in High Savoy...
...horse race." Here are two renderings of apparently cognate origin: "Caesaris bonas leges," "The bony legs of Caesar." "Nune viridi membra sub arbuto stratus," "He having now stretched his green limbs under the arbutus." We could add to the catalogue, "Sed damnatio, quid confert," or, as a Hoosier Freshman rendered it, "But, damnation, what good...