Word: ironical
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer into bare, tare...
...cold and cheerless aspect to the rooms. Further, in the new buildings at Yale the rooms have no open grates, but are heated by close and unhealthy steam-pipes. Is it better to pay a few dollars less and spend your evenings with your feet on a hot iron pipe instead of at a homelike grate...
...means an easy thing to sit naturally and becomingly for one's likeness. When the photographer has arranged you to his satisfaction, and your head is pushed up against the iron rest, and you are trying to look interested in a nail on the wall, when all the while you feel as constrained as possible, the word is uttered and the monster eye is about to glare; and just then, of a sudden, you wonder if you are opening your eyes wide enough. Every one likes to have justice done to his eyes, and so you lift your eyelids...
...college, every one, no matter how dull of comprehension, will become convinced that he must pay what he agrees to pay or suffer the consequences. We have been informed, too, that the legs of the assistant treasurer of the H. U. B. C. are not made of iron. He is affected, like ordinary men, by ascending, many times, long flights of stairs in search of those who "will pay some other time." May we ask "those whom it may concern" to consider these facts...
...greatest use in case of fire, but would be exceedingly convenient at other times. Of course, as the dormitories are now built, this would be impossible, but it is undoubtedly the way in which the buildings should have been constructed. There should also be a permanent iron ladder at the window of each entry, reaching from the roof to the ground...