Word: prop
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this little matter of spirituous imbibition, you must concede that the New Haven students are infinitely worse than we are. W(h)y, a-l-e is the very name their college goes by wherever it is known; and porter is the fountain of their life, their stay, their prop, their patron deity...
...ETIQUETTE" writes to us to inquire if. in our opinion, it would be proper for him to support a young lady, if she were taken with a faint, even if he had not been introduced. Proper, young man! Certainly, prop-her by all means. - Cleveland Herald...