Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THEATRICALS for the benefit of the Harvard Boat Club will be given in Horticultural Hall some time in the latter part of February.
HORRORSCOPE OF PROBABILITIES FOR COMMONS TODAY. - Breakfast light: followed by a general rise of appetite indicating a fish-dinner (probably Smelt-s), accompanied by a heavy storm of imprecations and a rapid fall of bodily temperature. Appetite steadily rising. Supper still lighter and very moist (cold water). Prospects for the...
(This has been nicely calculated by an old observer, and lacks the possibility of failure, which is such a charm in "Old Probabilities.")
A JUNIOR, eager for knowledge, has lost his eyesight from too great use of the midnight Hoyle.
DID Bret Harte allude to Victoria Woodhull in his popular sketch of "Tennessee's Pardner"?