Word: mon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...derived from the affecting story of Cinderella and her slipper, and from some confused tales of Greek mythology. On the question of suicide John has a very striking and convincing theory. "It is two toimes as bad to kill yourself," says he, "as to kill any outher mon. If you kill any outher mon, you can repint, but you can never repint whin you have killed yoursilf." John says there was once a man here at Harvard who tried to make people think that men came from monkeys. "What was his name, John?" "I have forgott'n, sorr...
...Saint Patrick was a good mon and an eddicated mon, but he didn't drive the snakes out of Ireland - for there never were any snakes in Ireland...
...There is no such thing as a burning hell, - only a purget'ry. Everything on this world was made for mon. He rules over all the birds and the beasts and his wife. Women are not the equals of men, for they can't keep secrets. Go to your 'sacred student,'" says John, "and tell him you have killed a mon, and nobody will ever know it; tell it to a woman, and it will be known in 'foive days...
...Evert J. Wendell '82 McGill Coll., Mon...
...readings, there would be some balm in Gilead to soothe and heal my burning, frenzied, demon-haunted intellect. But there is a fate upon me. A brooding curse from Ate sits within my mind, driving me on and ever exacting the penalty of - Ha! ???, Sospiter, Mein-Gott-in-Himmel, Mon Dieu, Good Lord! Save me! Save me! See, see! That form! Gone! Where am I? Who are you? A member of the Philosoph -? As Cromwell remarked at the battle of Bull Run, "This is a crowning mercy." Revenge is sweet! Verily, the spoiler is spoilt, the fowler snared...