Word: talk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...following is a cowboy's version of Mark Antony's speech: "Members of the family, relatives and friends, I didn't come here to talk, I'm on business. I'm an undertaker...
...carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures the student attends. They are all composed of the element thoughts and considerations of great thinking men who talk to the student in the hopes that he may learn by the experience of older men, and that what they say to him, may be of some advantage in after life. A solitary lecture by a well known speaker, who is master of his subject, will tend more to broaden...
...been that the cooks got the greater part of his perquisites or wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests rose in rebellion. He was forbidden to talk to any of the guests and ordered to keep in the back part of the house. It is to be presumed that next season he will seek some more congenial field, perhaps a Maine hay field. Then again, to form the habit of the lackey by living on fees...
...There is talk of another pool tournament at Leavitt & Peirce's after the mid-years...
...reason why magazines are so popular is that everybody reads them at the same time. No matter in what part of the country one finds himself, he is never at a loss for polite conversation if he has read the latest magazines. And it need not be empty talk, to discuss some striking character of Miss Woolson's or Mr. Howell's, to disagree over an article on the social question, to wonder at the latest scientific discovery. It is not strange that the "Popular Science Monthly" should be so much read at Harvard. It is almost the only college...