Word: pickwick
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When the usually staid, not to say austere interior of the New Lecture Hall is transformed this evening by flags and banners into a miniature of Madison Square Garden a few weeks hence, the scene will bear a distinct resemblance to the town of Eatanswill, where Mr. Pickwick and his friends beheld a Parlimentary election...
Following the debate in Sanders Theatre, a banquet will be given at the Pickwick Arms for the presiding officers, judges, and all the debaters...
...Buzfuz" was what Mr. Untermyer called Mr. Steuer, referring to the ingenious lawyer whom Dickens devised to send Mr. Pickwick to prison for breach of promise?because a. lady had fainted in his arms...
...first paragraph is Untermyer; the second, Steuer; the third, Buzfuz. Fortunately, in this case no matter how innocent either party may be, he will not go to jail like the poor Mr. Pickwick, found with his buxom landlady, widow Bardell, in his arms...
...added : " ' Pickwick still rears his head with unblushing effrontery, and gazes without a sigh on the ruin he has made...