Word: retreating
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...great favorite. He still keeps his house at Cambridge, where some of his most famous poems were written. His long absence from this country has served to make him more of an American than ever in his feelings and tastes. Those who have seen him in his delightful retreat at Southborough come away with the impression that not all whom the gods love die young. Few poets have been so notable for the charm of their conversation, and to spend an afternoon in Lowell's study is an event of events...
...Keyes, Nichols' Private School, were elected to the captaincies of the eleven, nine, and crew. The meeting now declared itself adjourned, and proceed to carry the adjournment into effect by making its exit per fenestras, though a considerable number availed itself of the door in a more dignified retreat...
...only to the owner. Other paper cribs are worn in the sleeves, and, fastened by elastics, fly back at the approach of danger. Similar contrivances are tied by thin rubber bands to suspender straps, and, drawn down below the vest at will, can be sent back to that safe retreat in short order if a professor appears at all suspicious. Small cribs are pasted in watch covers. Highly polished shoes offer a fine surface for inscriptions...
...scared out of his retreat by the light and warmth of Sanders Theatre, was one of the an ience at the Symphony concert Thursday evening...
...harm done is not so much the pecuniary loss as the inconvenience to which all the students of French are subjected. Hitherto they have been allowed unlimited liberties in the use of the books belonging to the French department. The reading-room has been a quiet and pleasant retreat, where all books necessary for the study of French could be obtained. Unless those volumes which have been taken are restored, it will be necessary to curtail the liberties now enjoyed by persons consulting the reference books, by placing the whole library of the French department under lock...