Word: permitted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Coming up to her unawares he said, "You are laying yourself out! Permit me to say that you are eggsaggerating," which so frightened the Innocent Fowl that she made an immediate eggsit from her nest. He made an eggsamination and discovered that the Hen fruit contained therein, though eggsternally beautiful, had no Pith. The yolk laid on the shoulders of the Editor of that daily Egg (0) was too heavy to be borne...
...hourly sheet will be gotten up in the highest style of art. Short words will never be used when long ones will suffice. The proof-reading will be as good as circumstances will permit. Extras will be issued whenever it becomes necessary to record the breaking of a window in the Yard, or the blowing off of a Sophomore's hat by the wind...
...criticisms in the New York papers especially complimented them on the careful practice and training shown in their glees, some of which were very much more difficult music than they have usually attempted. The Faculty forbade any manner of advertising of the concert, and would not even permit items to be inserted in the papers, mentioning the date of the performance. Many who would have been glad to go knew nothing of the concert until the next day, and many who did hear of it could not get tickets, or even find out where it was to be. In consequence...