Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...gentleman was walking on the platform of a country station with a pet poodle. The dog happened to get in the way of a large, fat baggage master, who gave the little brute a kick. "What do you mean by kicking my dog?" said the enraged owner. "Why, the dog is mad," returned the baggage master. "My dog mad, what are you talking about." "I say the dog is mad; wouldn't you be mad if I kicked...
What the Tennis Association can do, however, is to provide for us courts that will cost little to build, that will need only a little sprinkling and occasional rolling to keep in order, and that will be only better the more they are played on-we mean bare clay courts. At Princeton no turf courts are used at all. The courts are almost as bare as a billiard table, require but little work, and can be played on half an hour after a rain. The new land east of the new track could be made into bare courts at very...
...daily on their way to and from their places of business or in pursuit of pleasure, for they know how to be have. But we do call especial attention to those who from their ignorance or youth are not to be expected to behave themselves unless repeatedly admonished-we mean the "muckers." Everyday during term-time the "mucker" is present in the yard in small or great quantities, and is so unrestrained by the usages of polite society that he be comes a positive nuisance. It is bad enough to be obliged to see these little rascals always about...
Owing to the severe defeat administered to Wesleyan by Yale a short time ago, it was thought that the game would be too one sided to be interesting but Wesleyan proved themselves no mean opponents either in weight or skill...
...York Tribune addresses a few remarks to "Parents and Guardians," in which it moralizes on the various weaknesses of our American colleges and comes to the conclusion that we need better primary schools - a conclusion with which we all agree, although not always acknowledging that better schools should mean no higher universities. Says the Tribune...