Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...ladder placed in the doorway was used for the artists to stand on. Several songs, speeches, and specialty "acts" used up the evening very pleasantly. After a good deal of confusion and preliminary practice with pillows, +++alises and boots the fellows gradually retired and about midnight the car was quiet. Christmas Day was rather dull. The late hours, etc., were beginning to tell on the men and most of them slept nearly all day. They reached St. Louis about 9 and were driven to the Southern Hotel. By this time several of them were more or less affected with...
...anonymous "Sonnet" deserves much praise for its quiet elegance of diction, and "An Oxford Poem" is interesting as a clever parody on Mocaulay's Lays...
Though Dexter was well-known, and liked by a large number of his class-mates, he led a very quiet life at college. His nature was not such as to form many intimate acquaintances; and it was reserved, therefore, for the few warm friends who knew him well to realize the wonderful depth and beauty of his character...
Among some of the shorter contributions, is a clever, artistic story, full of humor and quiet pathos, called "Only an Incident," also a well-written study of impressionism in words by Alfred D. F. Hamlin, entitled "Pen Pictures of the Bosphorus...
...fell in love with his brother's widow, and finding in the law some difficulties in marrying her, resorted to the court. The decision was against him and he immediately proceeded to revenge himself on the King who opposed him. After this he returned to Iceland and began a quiet life. He lived on in a peaceable way for many years with his family about him, till at length, saddened by the death of one of his sons he himself died at a very great...