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Word: maudlinity (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1875-1875
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...plea is made in favor of the ladies and gentlemen we invite to our Class-Day celebration. The voice of purism objects that the brutal spectacle of the rush around the tree, and the slobbering, and too often maudlin embraces of the Seniors are less likely to please our friends than to cause them to blush...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXERCISES AT THE TREE. | 12/24/1875 | See Source »

SCENE in last car to Cambridge. Crowd of maudlin Freshmen...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 11/12/1875 | See Source »

...literature. It clothes the good in forms of beauty, and enlists the aesthetic faculty on the side of the true. The newspaper is the doctor rather than the sculptor, and must sternly set itself to dissect, amputate, and prune away the evils of society, and cannot stop to weep maudlin tears over petty virtues, or to create third-rate literature. Let us not then seek to find in the Nation what does not belong there. But we cannot fail to find in its writings a vigor and robustness of thought, a loftiness of aim, that is bred of the highest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE REVIEWER REVIEWED. | 10/29/1875 | See Source »

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