Word: snarls
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college poetasters and is therefore simply another example of our increasing greatness. As such, let us consider it for a moment. Of course we have differentiations of the poetic sense. We have the love ditty, the laboriously elaborated scholastic exercise, the philosophical sonnet, the frothy nothing, and the pessimistic snarl. A great portion of the writing is naturally the direct outcome of affectation, much of the rest from an ambition to shine as a literary light. But here and there at rare intervals we catch a glimmer, transient, it is true, of a pure, new thought, which will...
...next half hour was frittered away in trying to decide on a question of debate for the next meeting. The meeting rejected one subject after another, voting to reconsider the vote, and then rejecting the subject again. One or two gentlemen became so entangled in the snarl of amendments and amendments to amendments, that they did not know on which side they were voting, and had to ask leave to change their votes; while another gentleman seriously proposed that the union discuss the topic of "Free Tariff." The question finally decided on was : "Resolved, That the present tendency of athletics...