Word: ices
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...most recent utterances of the Faculty, is the chief object of education. But I soon began to fear that my partner's emotions had struck her dumb, for in vain I completely exhausted the standing army of society topics. The biggest stones that I could hurl upon the ice of her demeanor did not crack it. With the crowbar of my brain, I rolled down huge scientific boulders, but with no effect whatever. I tried thawing; my fire was built of the arts, kindled with compliments, and the heat was raised with a strong blast of enthusiasm, but all with...
Many promising young creatures in '82 thought it their duty to come as near as possible to getting dropped; they succeeded as well as do the equally juvenile youngsters who try to come as near getting drowned as they can by walking on thin ice, and some twenty have got a ducking already, and have been put to soak till next year. They will bring a delicious lotus-eating element into your class, dear Freshmen. Such men never "brace." They find walking on thin ice so exciting, that they keep on trying it, and are drowned forever...
...Memorial boarders revel in their Tuesday night ice-cream...
...smiles the ice had long been banished...
...Dana Street. The conductor, however, pointing at him the Finger of Scorn, exclaimed: "That Man was probably ignorant that by the new Rule his Ticket would convey him to The Square, Ha! Ha!" The Freshman, overhearing the low-minded Fellow, determined to overtake the Car, but slipped on the Ice and, falling, broke his Cane. "Alas!" cried he, blushing at his Discomfiture, "had I but formerly bought White Tickets, this Calamity would never have occurred...