Word: tendering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stage, soloists sink into insignificance; chorus and music are alike forgotten, and the attention of every one is fixed on what are generally supposed to be the minor parts of an opera, but are so no longer. No; a revolution has taken place, and hereafter, thanks to the tender watchfulness of Harvard, the "supe" will be the great attraction. The examples of the success of the new method are numerous. Who has not observed the breathless interest with which the entrance of any procession on the stage is now greeted? Perhaps it is the solemnity, the grandeur of a marching...
...waiters at Memorial was handed over to the tender mercies of the law last evening. It seems he was discharged by Mr. Balch, but before leaving undertook to break into the place where the waiters' clothes were kept, whereupon he was promptly removed by the steward. As he continued to be troublesome two officers were summoned and given charge over...
...bill has been introduced into the Connecticut legislature to compel the owners of all high houses to provide rope fire-escapes. If such a measure could be carried in Massachusetts there might be some prospect of the introduction of such fire escapes at Harvard by the authorities-under the tender persuasion of the police...
...unknown source these conspirators got wind of the possession of a quantity of peanuts by the aforementioned freshman - a parting gift from a fond mother or perhaps a sweetheart, as full of hope and trusting courage the youth set out to win his way in college. Peanuts! how many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish joys, remembrance of generous treats, the hoarded pennies invested with the itinerant vendor - and all the recollections that manhood recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful...
...thousand thoughts and tender fancies...