Word: syrup
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Ibis," he moaned, "give me something to put me to sleep before the next one; Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup - or something - Will...
...crimson and gold ensign of the embryo "surveyors and engineers" and a long streamer with "Au Revoir" inscribed upon it. They further, in response to some who, on a previous occasion, had taken them to task, hung out two gigantic prescriptions, in which a liberal quantity of honey and syrup were suggested as medicine for the Telegraph and Argus, and a wholesale dose of arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts, and observed a respectful silence during the progress of the play. When the curtain was going up, order was called...
...rejoice to learn from a Yale paper that "Happy Baby Soothing Syrup" is having an extensive sale at the New Haven institution. No news could be better than this, nor more fruitful in promises for the future of the Yale freshmen. It is pleasant also to note that it is entirely due to advertising in the college papers that this panacea has attained so wide a popularity at our sister college. The moral is obvious...
Freshee at breakfast table: "Pass her up, please." "Pass what up?" "Syrup...
...then the gentlemanly clerk knew that he was dealing with a poor little crushed and broken heart trying to drown its grief, and gently sidling behind the soda-fountain, he shed briny tears into the raspberry syrup...