Word: knows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...they feel that no redistribution of courts is probable this season, although the association is said to have received full control of the grounds on Jarvis and Holmes, the investment does not seem a profitable one. Would it not be wise for some one of authority to let us know what the committee on the constitution has brought forth after months of labor? If the whole matter is understood by those interested, next fall we shall experience no such indiscriminate scrambling for courts as occur annually. Some persons are really curious to know if the Tennis Association will ever relapse...
What did Butterfield know...
Butterfield knew nothing of these things. What did he know again of a "petit souper de garcon," the poetry of such an occasion had never touched...
...same room a few hours later when the smoke is curling about overhead; tongues are loosened, faces tinged with a rosy flush, the flowers and fruit strewn about the table, and all "ennuies de convention" are forgotten and wine and wit make gods of men. Still less did Butterfield know of these things in store...
...then as Butterfield was twenty-five years old and was not a cynic, of course we all know he had never been in love. In fact, he frankly admitted that he knew nothing of women. He knew none of the secrets of flowers, fans, gloves, smiles and the like which I believe come under the head of "Feminine Fancies." I say I believe, because I myself am rather an unromantic chap, and only know about these things from what I have heard on occasions like the one described above, when a last glass had caused the friend on my right...