Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which no earthly power could ever persuade me to divulge; and after the serious business of the evening is over we sit down to a supper, of which the uniquely shaped apple-tarts, which give the society its name, form the staple. There is in the same society a man named Swiddle. He passed with much distinction the initiation, the chief feature of which is, that the neophyte is obliged to eat a dozen tarts three inches in diameter in ten minutes, and to wash them down with six tumblers of Fresh Pond water. In Swiddle's case the water...
Comments are unnecessary, for the Nassau Lit. declares, "We dare not indulge the hope to find the average Yale man a gentleman under any circumstances...
...into practice. At the same time some of my readers may be able and willing to do so. The plan is very simple. All you need is a large house, a steep staircase, and a pair of hobnailed shoes. The house is a sort of decoy. You invite the man that you don't like to dine with you, or inveigle him into your power in some other way. When he comes to the house, he is led through a suite of elegant apartments decorated with paintings of the "Fall of the Rebellious Angels," the "Fall of Cardinal Wolsey...
Some tender-hearted people may object to this plan that it is treacherous; that it takes the man at a disadvantage; that it is hardly honorable. I thought so myself at first, but I convinced myself of the contrary by three cogent arguments...
...other man would do the same by you if he could get a chance to; 3. The thing has been done over and over again by the ancestors of every decent family in Europe...