Word: occasione
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ends up his article by some ill-chosen pleasantry in regard to the sparring at our last winter meetings. If the Gazette desires to allow people to air their ill-breeding through its columns, we have no possible objection; but we beg leave to suggest that an occasional regard for truth in the articles it publishes might add some weight to the communications themselves as well as elevate the usual standard of the Gazette's news...
"As it is getting late," remarked the chairman, blushing like a school-boy at the complimentary remarks of the editor, "we cannot hope to hear from all our honored guests; but before we break up I desire to call upon Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n for the poem which he...
I ADMIT I oughtn't to have done it; I knew it would make him angry. But then he shouldn't have taken me to call on her, even though I did ask him. The case was as follows: Lardy felt obliged to me; I had given him so many...
OF late the question has been agitated as to the rights of tennis players on Jarvis and Holmes Fields. So long as there was plenty of ground vacant where new courts might be placed, there was no occasion for much dispute; but now almost every available spot seems to have...
I left Wight the next morning, having pressing engagements elsewhere. I was very sorry indeed for the necessity which compelled me, for I had found Alfred a very companionable man, entirely frank and unaffected. Those people who think he is a proud and reserved man - a man of few words...