Word: remus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Union Hall was filled to overflowing on Saturday night, and about half filled on Saturday night, and about half filled on Saturday afternoon to witness the representation of the extravaganza "Romulus and Remus." The play went off as smoothly as could be desired; the "grinds" were fresh and very amusing, though bearing rather hard upon Boston and Bostonians; the costumes, especially those of the Romans and Sheperdesses, were very striking; and the music, artistically adapted from the latest comic operas by Mr. Daniels, was very well rendered by the Boston Cadet Band under his direction. The plot, it is needless...
...Uncle Remus, on the meaning of the word "vice-versa," thus enlightened some colored compatriots the other day: "I cannot desplain pezactly," he said, "so to meet wid your compredehension, but wiser-wersa am an propriation from de Latn, and means wuss and wuss and mo' of it. I members stumblin' ober it at colledge. It am a hard word to pronounce...