Word: tm
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...getting late," remarked the chairman, blushing like a school-boy at the complimentary remarks of the editor, "we cannot hope to hear from all our honored guests; but before we break up I desire to call upon Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n for the poem which he has kindly prepared for the occasion. It will be published in the next Harper's, with thirty-five pre-Raffaelite illustrations, many of them portraits of - of ourselves...
...give Mr. Wh-tm-n's poem entire...
...tm-n was vigorously applauded throughout; and then, after the effigy of the secretary had been thrown down and torn to pieces amidst shouts of laughter, the club adjourned sine...
...cold perspiration stood on the faces of the listeners at this. "Who will read it, Robert, who will read it?" asked Mr. J-st-n W-ns-r pathetically. Then T-nnys-n said that some poets were poets, and so was Walt Wh-tm-n and Walk-in Miller. Mr. Rottessi intimated that he was another, and that - Here Mr. Rustin interfered, saying that Art was Art, and the Poets were Fools. At this insult, a hundred tottering forms indignantly arose, and the constitution was forgotten in a windy war of words, in the midst of which Algernon Charles...
This was recognized at once as a gross plagiarism upon a dainty poem of the Advocate. Mr. H. was visited with scorn, and replied by throwing about the spoons. At this critical state of affairs Mr. Walt Wh-tm-n emerged from under the table, and delivered the following