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...that for wearing gold braid. The law about drunkenness was that "if any Scholar should be guilty of Drunkenness, he shall be fin'd one shilling and sixpence or he shall make a publick confession or be degraded, according to the Aggravation of the Offence. And if any Scholar persist in a course of Intemperance, he shall be Rusticated or Expelled...
Some men were found to have chronic digestive troubles and a few showed signs of lung trouble. A follow-up system is adhered to in the case of men whose abnormalities persist, and such cases are given close and proper treatment...
...enough to be made the sons, daughters, aunties, uncles, cousins, sons-in-law, daughters-in-law and concubines of the high-and- mighty Southern gentlemen of Poynter's ilk there should be little room for complaint from them when a few humble but learned magazine editors and managers persist on "putting themselves down on equality with Negroes...
...whacking dead cats up and down he gutters. In the course of time some of the boys found that footing was better on the ice. Gradually the dead cat ceased to be used as a target, being replaced by a puck. However, even to this day the British persist in calling the puck "the cat", and "the kit." The general adoption of steel skates speed up the game, adding interest and thrills, and insuring lasting popularity for the sport...
Said the London Evening Standard: "So long as we persist in thinking that there is some sort of link between them [the two countries], so long will some of us persist in using that language of frank and familiar rebuke which (however mistakenly) is supposed to be proper between relatives. If we could bring ourselves to think of America as a great foreign power with which we are on friendly terms, but which expects to be treated and will treat us just like another foreign power, then these troubles might be avoided...