Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...with more glasses than crockery on the table, and friends not less than the Graces nor more than the Muses in number. What a picture. Who does not remember such an one? But still more bewitching is the picture of this same room a few hours later when the smoke is curling about overhead; tongues are loosened, faces tinged with a rosy flush, the flowers and fruit strewn about the table, and all "ennuies de convention" are forgotten and wine and wit make gods of men. Still less did Butterfield know of these things in store...
...tell you what I mean to do. Leave off my lazy habits in the first place, smoke no cigars, drink no wine, own no armchair, and stick to the law, Tom, without a poney. I've had an easy time in college, and have enjoyed well the 'Otium cum dignitate' - the learned leisure of a scholar's life - always despising digging, you know, and what with ticking, screwing and deading, am candidate for a piece of parchment tomorrow, certifying that I am admitted to be by all A. B., which being interpreted is A Booby, a passport all the world...
This is a Bad man. Why is this a Bad man? He is a College student, and the Good Editor of the Wise Paper says that all College students are Bad Men. Name some of the attributes of College students. College students smoke Cigarettes and they Rush a great deal, and Haze one another, and, oh! some of them play Poker. But only the very Worst play Poker. So this must be a Yale man. Go away, you Bold...
Oscar Wilde found out in two days what our college boys seem to be in ignorance of, that very few of the cigarettes in this country are fit to smoke. And yet they foolishly set him down for a flat. - [Post...
There was a blaze last evening in Doe, Hunnewell & Co.'s furniture factory in Boston. The loss is heavy and principally from water and smoke...