Word: syrup
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Still further, this philosophy is like Mrs. Winslow's soothing-syrup, - "Children cry for it." I mind me, as the Scotch would say, of an anecdote of my Freshman year, that may illustrate this...
...there is one thing sweeter; snugger, squeezer, kisser, hugger, than another in this world of love and sunshine, it is going to a college mixed. Smiles, sugar, and soothing-syrup, serenades and sadness, study nothing, go among 'em, everything. The old fashion of "going it alone" is played out for the better one of "going it double." Some may take their education "straight," but as for me, "give me 'mix,' or give me nothing...