Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...These immediately assumed a character which it is safe to say they never before dreamed of. The report along the line that a menagerie had "broken loose" will give a hint as to the character meant. The grave senior, unused to aught but dignity, unbent his brow into a smile and shouted and sang at intervals between puffs at his cigar. The junior was elate and jocund, and the sophomores and freshmen copied the example thus set them. Various parties, curiously enough of four each, seized and held possession of the smoking compartments and played whist; the Glee Club practised...
Journalistic courtesy: "There is a High School or Grammar School located at Wayback, Somewhere County, at which is published a paper called, if we mistake not, the Lehigh Chestnut or Burr, or something. We laugh a sad smile when we see these infantic sheets that originate in some back woods town strain themselves in an attempt to write an opinion." - Acta Columbiana...
...each class as it leaves becomes simply a memory of the past. It is fitting that that memory should be drowned in a last prolonged rejoicing. The day on which the sun nowhere else shines so brightly, on which even the ancient gods seem nowhere to smile so kindly as at the college which gave it birth is a fitting close to the years of labor. Then let us take leave of the day with its coolness and its quiet, its sweet, soft music, its sentimental walks, and its whispered words of farewell...
...stating his own ideas, of which by the way he is very positive, without thinking it necessary to establish his views with solid facts, or with solid facts to refute the views of his opponents. Free traders as a rule express great contempt for their opponents, the protectionists, and smile in a pitying way at the follies and mistaken theories of the protectionists, often prefacing their remarks with the observation that really educated men can not possibly believe in protection. The protectionists, on the other hand, appeal to the tender side of their hearers' nature, and tell pitiful tales...
...good a one at Hahvahrd?" I admit that we have not, to his great delight; for he exclaims, "Gawd, Charlie, this gentleman says we've got a better gymnasium than Hahvahrd; and how we ah going to lick her this year at everything dont'ch knaw?" I smile, (inwardly) and complete my observations...