Word: smile
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...children are growing up to be more supercilious than their father. They are still more cold and haughty. They smile at the people as they pass by to the church and say 'How foolish! We are the only wise ones of the earth.' They have no regard for any but the few that are like them, and they are few indeed...
...England or of Rome. When the speakers raise their arms in gesticulation, one unaccustomed to the dress thinks, "They all, flapping their wings, cried caw." During the delivery of the Latin Salutatory, all who know any Latin wait for the usual "dulc(k)issimas puellas," and when it comes smile to show that they are enjoying the whole performance, which is, of course, always characterized by "perfect Latinity and exquisite beauty...
...promenade: Next Tuesday evening a beautiful young lady, on being shown the championship flags in boating, base-ball, foot-ball, etc., etc., (we haven't room to enumerate), will ask of her athletic protector, "When the other colleges have promenades what do they use for decorations?" Reply, with pleased smile-"Oh, Harvard needs no decoration, and Princeton uses a lacrosse stick...
...which it will be possible to put into the base ball field with the opening of spring. Not only have we the men composing our last year's team, Safford '84 excepted, but there are several competitors who would do honor to any nine, and if fortune continues to smile, our record for '85 will surpass that of the past season...
...fellow birds that he is up. He must be deaf; for surely he cannot hear the beloved yodel say-"not this eve," each time he passionately offers himself. He continues unceasingly to offer himself, and all around him, living sacrifices on the altar of his divinity, who will never smile upon him. Young man, be not deceived; trust her not, she's fooling thee." You cannot,-we are sorry to blast your high-blown ambition by the revelation,-cannot yodel. Requiescat in pace, and let us too requiescat...