Word: satanic
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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THIS is highly colored: "The lilacs are budding," says a Wisconsin editor. "You lilac Satan," responds one of his readers. "You violet truth," politely replied the editor. And both are given over to blue devils...
...FRIEND has taken the trouble to send us an extract from the New York Journal of Commerce which denounces college boat races as being a nucleus of blacklegs, betting, and every instrument of Satan to give young men "their first lessons in the evil world." The article, as the writer says, was written under the impressions made while belated at Springfield, and suffering from the bad digestion of a Massasoit pot-pourri meal. This accounts for the gloomy view taken; but as regards the expressed opinion that races would be better rowed at home, and "subject to the inspection...