Word: timing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...important points have been definitely settled, the results of the Convention, taken as a whole, are hardly satisfactory to many of the colleges. The old dispute as to who are eligible for University crews is not settled any more fairly than it was before, to say nothing of the time wasted upon the useless discussion of unimportant points...
Under the circumstances, we cannot blame the author for reverencing his mother, especially when she is arrayed in her jacket which is mended where it is torn; but if he would spend the time, in some lucrative employment such as saw-filing, which he wastes in torturing the ear with such - as this, both his mother and the world would doubtless be better...
...control of the Roman clergy. To such a project the Premier could not have given his support if he had wished; for it would have involved him in the inconsistency of urging the Non-Conforming Scotch and English to disestablish the Episcopal Church in Ireland, and at the same time to recognize the Catholic Hierarchy. So Cardinal Cullen, resolved to accept nothing less than the full measure of his demands, orders the Catholic members of Parliament to side with the Tories to defeat the bill of the Ministers. Gladstone falls by the ingratitude of those whose chief benefactor for five...
...sole purpose of making his name prominent before the public as a patron-saint of the histrionic profession. He enrolls and magnificently equips a regiment of soldiers, aspiring to military glory, if not by deeds of valor on the battle-field, at least by gaudy uniform in time of peace, and by brandishing in front of the "Bloody Ninth" a bloodless sword. But not only does he raise and support armies; he creates navies. He buys a line of steamers, comprising the finest boats in the country; but their chief value to him, after all, is in adding...
...catch from the whispered comments, "Remarkable clever young feller," "Seems to know considerable"; and, from the good old ladies, "Why, he's perlite's a basket o' chips." And then, when you went to ride with that cousin of yours, though we all know the horse took his own time when you were off on the back roads, how you straightened up as you drove down into the village, and reasoned with that horse (illustrating liberally with cuts) to so good purpose that he tore through the main street of the village at a rate that brought half the population...