Word: tente
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...actors in the colorful drama enacted under the Japanese lanterns in the dim aisles of the Yard. But two hundred years ago, Commencement Day was the occasion of a general jollification among the populace of Massachusetts as a whole. Drawn not by the main, or academic tent, whose attractions at this time consisted chiefly of orations in Latin, Hebrew, and Greek, but by the side-shows clustering around the big top, the countryfolk and townspeople flocked to Cambridge, and choked the quiet precincts of the town and college until, we are reminded, the place was nothing less than Revere Beach...
...hopes within a year to be ordained a deacon in the English Church. Although he has been seen upon the football field he has never shone at the game, but he is one of the few people in England who have been to Switzerland and back with a tent on a bicycle...
...After the Flood: And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard; And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent- GENESIS 9: 20-21. He was somewhat over 600 years old then...
Early Bostonian: [There is] "a story told by Carl Schurz, who, during the American Civil War, on asking a sentry guarding his tent why he had not presented arms to a General who had just left it, received the answer: 'Why, sir, that General was never introduced...
...circus, John and Charles Ringling were the ablest; their wealth, owing to wise investments in Texas oil, in Florida land, is now immense; the yearly profit of the circus, sturdy as it is, hardly exceeds the income tax of one of them. Wherever the circus stops, a private dining tent, equipped with an English butler, a polished floor, silver and glass and napery, is set up near the big top, for nobody knows when one of the Ringlings will drop across the continent and pick up the show. This gentility, in the second generation of Ringlings, has taken the form...