Word: se
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Money made. Se advertisement of stocks bought and sold in next column...
...class yell of '90 at Rochester is "Zoo-zoo-zi-se. yi-yi-nine...
...Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this ingenious transparency was a silhouette of a gentleman embracing a girl, with the two mottoes, "Inter armas leges et silentes," and "No law forbids the associated press...
...order to "support" the home team on a distant field. In the case of the boat races, exhortation is necessary, but the result is the same. A greater or less number of students abandon their proper pursuits in search of excitement which is unwholesome per se, and add to their car fares and hotel bills the price of amusement, licit or illicit, during the nights they spend in a strange city away from their usual resources and their usual restraints. That in many cases the "visiting student's" purse is further depleted by wagers lost on the game in question...
...second sentence was as follows: "Le pauvre garcon . . . se tournaitet retournait sur son coussin, envoyant de gros soupirs et gemissant sans pouvoir se reviellier." Naturally, in several instances, the poor boy was "reflecting about his cousin," but the prize for ingenuity goes in this translation of the italicized words: "dreaming of great suppers, and groaning without being able to relieve himself...