Word: scribes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sporting reporter has pointed out to him a 'varsity stroke, or third-base, or half-back, who has failed in the recitation room; whereupon the news-hungry scribe immediately writes up two or three columns on the proverbial stupidity, of oarsmen, base-ball and football players. Since the great professional, Renforth died in his boat, ten years and more ago, the material for a sudden death article has not been wanting...
MLLE. BERNHARDT has wisely decided to finish out her engagement in Boston, notwithstanding the dramatic scribe of last Tuesday's Echo, who damned her with faint praise, and gave the world to understand that she has no genius...