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Word: irishman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thim's students, thank hivens I ain't had no education," was the remark of an old Irishman as the prosession of '80 came in sight. Others, however, did not regard the students with such disfavor. "The sidewalks," according to the college paper, "were lined with beautiful young ladies of Boston's first families;" and they greeted the procession with every demonstration of approval. Sixty-five handkerchiefs, one black shawl, and various pieces of hats is the current Crimson's estimate of the more tangible marks of maidenly favor con ferried. This procession of '80 was The largest and best...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Torchlight Processions of the Past. | 11/3/1884 | See Source »

...that. Our use of the words "guess" and "well" is one of the most familiar of these. Indeed, we must not look to London (pace Mr. Richard Grant White) if we would like to hear English as she is spoke by those who know how to speak her. The Irishman who tells you that the church was "thronged" at early mass, or that he "wrought" two hours for you, uses finer Saxon than the dwellers on the Thames who write on his "honour" that the "labouring" classes are highly "favoured" in these days. And we Americans who call the monthly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. | 5/30/1884 | See Source »

...good paper. Here more improvement is noticed, yet the old peculiar style so well known still remains. His work on this paper has been confined almost entirely to small outline figure drawings. But no matter how small or trivial the same expressiveness remains as of old. Every Irishman is about to break out into his native brogue and Matthew Arnold, true to life, stands hesitatingly scanning his lecture notes. Well may the Lampoon be proud of her great son; but Mr. Atwood can better be called the father of Lampy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PROMINENT HARVARD ILLUSTRATOR. | 2/2/1884 | See Source »

...past member of the club. The scent was very bad at start and the handicapped men soon caught up. At the Longwood bridge the scent was lost for more than 15 minutes and again farther on owing to the badness of the scent and the ingenious lying of an Irishman an equal amount of time was lost. After about five miles of the course had been covered the scent improved. The course lay through Brookline and Jamaica Plain to Chestnut Hill reservoir. Here Mr. Matthewson and Mr. Norton made up their handicap but again the scent was lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BICYCLE HARE AND HOUNDS. | 11/12/1883 | See Source »

...students of Harvard expect to be the lenders in such organizations. They will expect those under them to be temperate. Is it fair, is it manly, for them to indulge themselves while depriving others of the privilege? He first became a total abstainer through a poor hard-drinking Irishman whom he tried to reform. He could not play fair with him unless he agreed to shut off drinking himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TOTAL ABSTINENCE LEAGUE. | 3/24/1883 | See Source »

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