Word: siestas
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...important and more frequent than heretofore, the custom of the Boston Bicycle Club might be adopted. The members of this club meet every Sunday, in good weather, for a long run into the country. A long rest is taken in the middle of the day for dinner and a siesta at any old country inn or hotel that they may chance to find at hand. If the far-famed "Harvard indifference" could be overcome, this might be made an enjoyable feature of our usually monotonous Sundays...
...variety theatre. He is great in theories, - he has one ready for every occasion, - but when you get him down to practice, he is n't there. Too much trouble, really, you know! He can reform the world, - on paper, - but is too fond of his diurnal cigarette and siesta to pitch in and carry out his own ideas. He prefers to dream about it from a distance. In fine, he is a man who spends four years at college in filling his head with fancies that it takes him all the rest of his life...