Word: straws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tolerated rather than welcomed. A flat refusal to superintend the proposed race on any conditions whatever was only prevented by a desire to avoid an appearance of incivility in the face of a public which could not be expected to understand the difficulties of the case. Perhaps the last straw which turned the balance was the dislike of the managers to say "No" when one of the applicants from Harvard was "a New London boy;" but they clearly kept in mind the theory that this first Freshman race was an experiment, and that, unless it proved a far more successful...
...College watchman was exhibited in an iron cage, heavily shackled; he looked sleepy and harmless, and some urchins running along-side even dared to tickle him with a straw. The whole pageant was brilliantly illuminated by an electric light in charge of a professor of physics, who had borrowed it from Edison expressly for this occasion. The enlivening strains of heavenly melody, the brightly flashing armor of the knights, the brilliant galaxy of starry loveliness, the ferocious roaring of the imprisoned monsters, - all combined to make a scene richer than
...show lasted thirty-three minutes, and then entered its present quarters, where it will remain until further notice. All who go to see it will be presented with a glass of lemonade, a straw, and a degree, gratis. Tickets for sale on the right, near the entrance to the grounds, $150. Reserved seats, $50 to $300, according to location...
...balmy spring is with us once again; the buds on the trees and the boys in the Yard shed respectively their brown scales and winter clothing, and blossom forth in the freshness of the vernal season. With spring comes the dainty crocus, the dandelion, the wilted collar, and the straw hat, and with the straw hat comes the ribbon. But ribbons at Harvard College are as distinctive a mark of honor as the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and about as hard to obtain. Fired by the noble example of the Crew and the Nine, the various other organizations...
Like wisp of straw, this Fury past my view...