Word: johnson
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...officers of the Everett Athenaeum for this term are as follows: President, J. A. Tufts; Vice-President, W. A. Bancroft; Secretary, S. B. Woods; Treasurer, J. R. Holmes; Standing Committee, C. Moore, B. N. Johnson, E. B. Hunt; Board of Editors, C. H. Vinton, G. S. Raymer, E.W. Morse...
...Johnson b. Jones...
...worse yet, suppose him to be caught. Why, then all mystery flies away at once, and the horror created by the murder is diminished. People discover that the, before unknown, death-dealer is not the weird and relentless creature of their imagination, but a certain Mr. Thompson or Johnson, a small, mild-looking man, perchance, who has heretofore borne the best of characters, and who was doubtless actuated by exceptional motives of animosity in this case. They are sure, now, that they shall not be killed by this man, and they flatter themselves that his capture and punishment will...
...Johnson Webster Worcester...
...pardoned for denying the name of gentleman to a man who cut the leaves of a book, in the author's presence, with a table-knife covered with butter. This indeed is a trifle, and for the perfection of the English bourgeois-artiste character we must go to Dr. Johnson. There is a good deal, after all, to be said in excuse of the first gentleman of his time letting him wait in the anteroom among the lackeys; for except in his learning and moral character, he was little better than they; while in personal habits and delicacy of feeling...