Word: room
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Miss Langweilig was alone in the dressing-room, and what a fright she was! Dress grass-green, eyes a few shades lighter, hair red and banged, nose strongly interrogative, and mouth exclamatory. I knew her by sight, (as who does not?) but had never met her. But the case was desperate; so, instead of "holding the finger of perplexity in the mouth of deliberation," I did with my courage as Mr. Shakespeare directs and began the onslaught...
...give me the pleasure of her company? Animated silence! This I translated with the help of the old proverb, as follows: of course Miss L. is only too happy to do anything rather than serve as one of those botanical specimens that on such occasions adorn the drawing-room; and it was but natural that, in the prospect of an evening with myself, a Harvard Senior, for partner, her emotions should quite overpower her utterance...
...Freshmen deserve great praise for their self-control in refraining from molesting the Sophomores at the tree, and it is to be hoped that room at the tree will always be found in future for the Freshman class...
...annual meeting of the Fraternity of the Phi Beta Kappa, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, will be held in the west lecture-room of Boylston Hall, to-morrow, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon...
...nose, which, being a little retrousse, added marvellously to the deep sentiment written plainly in her other features. There was a plaintive dulcet tone to her voice that thrilled the heart of every hearer, as completely as - as - as the squeaking of bad chalk does in a recitation-room. Her poem, "On the Beauty of Youth," was too perfect a production for us to dare to mar it by quotations. The author breathed forth her inspiration with all the calm resignation of some bereaved, unappreciated, neglected world-wanderer, who looked back with tears in her eyes to the days...