Word: towns
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...straightforward dealing. The promises of the S. R. A. in regard to pool-selling, accommodations, etc., were observed with the most punctilious exactness. The greatest order and decorum prevailed, and the much-dreaded John Morrissey was rather a blessing than otherwise, by concentrating whatever wickedness there was in town behind the green curtains of his club-house. Never before has Saratoga been filled with so large or so respectable an assemblage as that which thronged to witness the Regatta of 1874, and it is safe to assert that no other place suitable for a regatta can be found to accommodate...
...wholly unusual. The band on the piazza of the Union was playing "Hall, Columbia," which to us was the next best thing to hearing "Fair Harvard." Harvard and Columbia cheered each other in front of the Congress till they were hoarse, and then joined in a procession through the town. Late in the afternoon the decision of the referee was announced as follows...
...taste the vintage of every town...
Through an old Etruscan town...
...story is authentic, as the tomb may be seen, as told in the story, in the town after which this poem is named...