Word: surf
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Joke-ah, number thwee. Jerusalem, you are pwessing mattahs too fah. At Hawvawd we feel ah that we ah must patronize Emerson a little-ah, but the awdawcious fellah, actually-ah. - Yes, this is a Harvard Senior. Is he always thus? He is not when he takes a surf bath at Coney Island. "Cultuah" can then be - relegated to Boston where it belongs...
Forever drown'd in surf and margin'd with
...look around. I saw only . . . Only a white arm lifted, a white figure fall . . . It was too late! The receding tide bore her swiftly away. I saw for a moment a golden head lifted from the waters, and heard a cry above the noise of the surf. In my despair I sprang forward to the edge of the pier, intending I know not what - perhaps to spring into the sea, where no such swimmer as I could have lived. But a firm hand held me back...