Word: suits
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ready style and ample vocabulary from constant application of the familiar, "What does the author attempt? Is the attempt worth while? Is the attempt successful?" These three phrases stand like ghouls at the mental feast of every wretched sophomore, and, with cruel knives carve his repast into morsels to suit themselves...
Each carves-or hacks to suit his taste...
Senator Edmunds sailed for England Saturday, in order to testify before a committee of the House of Lords in a suit affecting one of the oldest peerages of England...
...these latter is equipped for any district in the country, since physiology and the principles of common law are always the same. In journalism every locality demands different work. The requirements as well as the taste of the public must be understood and satisfied. The journalistic knowledge which would suit Boston; for example, would be altogether unsuitable for Minnesota. The two essential characteristics of a journalist in any place are the faculty of "knowing what you don't know," and the faculty of knowing what person to interview for news, this latter being largely a matter of intuition. In almost...
...romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such a poetical way Boswell was not shaped enough on the Greek model to make such wooing a complete artistic success, for he straightway begins to feel that his suit is not prospering, and summons a friend to help him. His friend was to visit the 'divinity' at her home, and plead for him; and Boswell sent him the following "Instructions:" "Set out in the fly on Monday morning. Take tickets for Friday's fly. Eat some cold victuals. Wednesday. Breakfast...