Word: tastee
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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"So we agreed that when either of us used language which transgressed the bounds of good taste, - in other words, when either was roused to profane remarks, - we should deposit in a box for the purpose one cent for every such remark, and the money thus obtained should constitute a...
But the taste of the sulphurous worlds below,
But the most charming feature in all these men is the intense interest they manifest in our culture and morals. Scarce a day passes over our heads that some philanthropic gentleman does not try to cultivate our taste for art by thrusting upon us poor engravings and cheap chromos; or...
The reason why we have thus to cultivate and reform our taste from the beginning, is that our surroundings - excepting only where man has not interfered with "Dame Nature," to use the correct expression - are the reverse of artistic. The interior of most of our churches suggests as surely an...
With these facts before him our writer sends out his thoughts in search of something funny : but witticisms are coy birds and fly high; few are able to capture them at will, or furnish them to order. In nine cases out of ten, wearied with his fruitless endeavors, he descends...