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Word: school (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...father's name used to be Thomas O'Donohue. I don't know what it is now. He is a man of leisure, and at present boards at the granite building near the Medical School. My mother's name was Bridget before her marriage, and is still, I think. They were married...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A MODEL CLASS LIFE. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

...School nominates Senator Bayard for the Presidency...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

THERE are sixteen students in the Scientific School, and twenty-five instructors...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

Goody. - I'm surprised. I did n't know that school begun...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/18/1879 | See Source »

TAKE one Latin School boy of a tender age, - one who has trodden on the edge of dangerous and unknown truths preferred, - two cupfuls of platitudes, four cupfuls of conceit; then add two pounds of feeling allusions to the effect that the great majority of your friends never use soap and water, and don't know enough to open their bedroom windows at night. Garnish the dish with "it seems to me," and sprinkle freely with the pronoun I. Serve with grandiloquence and bombast...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TO MAKE AN AFTER-DINNER SPEECH. | 12/5/1879 | See Source »

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