Word: manners
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...house for his second Sunday dinner. In the evenings when worked up he was fond of relating how the Turks decapitated condemned prisoners. Standing in the middle of the room with his bright eyes flashing fire he would make with his hands each of the peculiar motions after the manner of a Turkish headsman. When he went out he carried a stout cane like a club, in the end of which was a long sharp spike. This served him as a defensive weapon, for the old man was very much afraid of robbers. On the street he always wore...
...initial concert of the Technology Glee Club was held in Boston on Jan. 2. A programme of twelve numbers, including a guitar solo, was rendered in a creditable manner...
...Spirit of the Times, in an article headed "Harvard Notes," speaks of a new scheme for the selection of the teams in the various branches of athletics in the following manner: "As regards the team selections, the objection is against the system which has prevailed for years, and is not in any respect to be considered as a stricture upon any individual. Tersely stated, the proposition advanced is that the captain, or other superior officers, should not have the selection of the men, but that unbiased outsiders should designate the men, and the captain should simply train and manage...
...summer in England between the famous Renshaw brothers and the Clarks, because these games seemed to be a fair teat of two distinct styles of play, which may be said to be fairly representative. Mr. Evelegh, who was referee in these matches, recently expressed himself in the most unprejudiced manner as very much pleased with the play of the Americans, which, of its style, was the best he had ever seen. But he also said "that the style was entirely wrong. Against men of the Renshaw 'calibre,' they played far too near the net, and when the Englishmen really...
...ride his bicycle if he were otherwise than sober. It was a great educational reformer, because it enabled persons to go from one end of the country to the other in a fortnight at little expense, and spend their holidays in a reasonable n a reasonable and rational manner...