Word: nails
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...with the owner's name on it is stolen from Memorial Hall, one is consoled by the thought that it may have been taken by some poco who strolled into the umbrella rack; but when a student has a hat with his card pasted in it taken from a nail near his seat, and never returned, the chances are that some student has it. Now these students must be making a rich harvest this year, for at our table alone three hats and four umbrellas have been lost, - I should say stolen. I presume that these students are in training...
...means an easy thing to sit naturally and becomingly for one's likeness. When the photographer has arranged you to his satisfaction, and your head is pushed up against the iron rest, and you are trying to look interested in a nail on the wall, when all the while you feel as constrained as possible, the word is uttered and the monster eye is about to glare; and just then, of a sudden, you wonder if you are opening your eyes wide enough. Every one likes to have justice done to his eyes, and so you lift your eyelids...
...allowance was, etc., it began to grow monotonous. I said, "Look here, old fellow! I'll just write down all those things, such as how old I am, how much money my father has, how many sisters I have, how old they are, etc., and then you can nail it up on your door so that you need not bother yourself to come in here when you want to find out, you know." No go. He came in just the same. The only result has been to give him a great idea of my superior wisdom, the consequence of which...