Word: moneyed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Upton's Money and Politics, 70 cents; March magazines; Merry Men and Other Tales; Franklin in France; Silsbee's Half Century in Salem; Cairne's Leading Principles of Political Economy; May's Constitutional History of England; Bright's English History, Vol. III.; Lodge's Modern Europe; Autenrieth's Homeric Dictionary; Chardenal's Second French Course; Black's La France...
...agreed to bestow cups on their nine, emblematic of the victories won against Yale last year. This decision was very natural and very laudable; but aut pecunia aut nil and names with dollar signs affixed to them in a miserable blue-book are not money. Whereas over $100 have been subscribed for, the management has as yet heard the clink of but $60. We trust that we need simply mention this fact without enforcing its significance and the remedies for it by mighty arguments. The course to be pursued is too axiomatic in its plainness to admit of demonstration...
Members save a good deal on many small thing which are furnished at very low prices. The stock of soaps is of the best kinds to be had for the money, as are the tooth and hair brushes, the cutlery and the leather goods...
...punishment was suspended by the corporation and never revived. The minor offences were punished by fines varying in amount with the enormity of the offence. Smoking was prohibited "unless permitted by the President, with the consent of parents and guardians, and on good reason first given by a physician." Money was very scarce in those days and a frequent delinquent who had the ill-luck to be detected in his wrong-doing would soon find himself impoverished. Indeed ready cash was so difficult to attain that the term bills were often paid in kind, butter, cheese, fruit, etc., being...
...strong and earnest appeal for the requisite amount of money to build a monument in New York to the memory of General Grant embodies the most important feature of the first article in the January number of the "Art Review". To the artist, the short account of the famous "Gilder" of Rembrandt cannot fail to be both attractive and interesting. "An Outline Sketch" is the title of a pleasant picture of the distinguished American painter, Paul Reubens Smith. The closing pages of the magazine are entirely devoted to "Art Notes," which form a budget of interesting facts to artists. Apart...