Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...tion So-ci-e-ty. It is only an As-so-ci-a-tion for the Man-u-fac-ture of Soft Soap. See how they Slap one-an-other on the back, and cry "We are the Cheese." No, you must not tell them to Cheese It. If you do, the Zip-ban-go will come out of the Back-woods and De-vour you. It loves to feed on Lit-tle Children Like you. Beware of it. It is a Blood-thirsty Beast. - [Argo...
Goodies are of two kinds, candy and Irish; but gimme candy. So are potatoes, but I like sweet potatoes best. My brother Fred, he's at college, says he don't like goodies, but he's stuck up, anyhow, and I heard Miss May tell Miss Archer yesterday that she thought Fred real conceited, there now! But Jenny May, that's Miss May's sister, says she's mashed on Fred. How funny. Jenny's a nice girl, only she will tease a feller about kissing people. Well, I never kissed a girl, - 'd'ruther play marbles...
...course he had had considerable champagne, but he had no right to tell her that they call them Germans because they are too-tone...
Campanini made a great success of his Arnoldo in "William Tell...
...anything to do now except catch a freshman now and then for hooking a barber's sign, or something of that sort. Then they are so babyish about it there ain't any fun in it. They try to get out of it in some way or other. I tell you when the fellows got caught in anything years ago, they died game every time. They didn't say that it wasn't all right for us to catch them. They found out what the fine was, and antied up like men without any fooling. Some...