Word: tell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...please don't go tell her that I told...
...tell me, in a nice way, how long the po-ny lives...
...about seeing him, but I know some of the girls are just crazy to. I've seen his picture, and think he's horrid ugly. He looks like a Yale senior does when he asks you to waltz - sort of frightened and remorseful. But I'm just going to tell you of something that happened at the theatre the other evening. I went with my Cousin Harry (he's my second cousin), and a great, big, horrid man leaned over and asked me if I wouldn't take my Gainsboro' hat off at the end of the act so that...
...cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes and abhorrer of the common place. Bostonians surely appreciate the beautiful, but will they place in their shrines the chaste sun-flower and immaculate lily, and before them kneel in aesthetic adoration and reverence? We cannot tell. Will the sons of Fair Harvard, imitators of the island-born Briton, also conform to the manners of him who yearns and is intense? Will they wander aimlessly through the yard with woe-begone expressions, clad in a gauze of glowing supremity and a hot-house poppy? The future alone...
...that is right; now tell me in one word about all tu-tors...