Word: tune
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...grass laziness taking precedence of all other emotions. The average undergraduate discussed the chances of the match, the amount of money he was going to have left for Springfield, and the folly of the Class Committee in not printing more tickets for Memorial Hall, a tune which they unanimously changed about nine in the evening...
When the band played, a long line of fashionably dressed youths fell into line and marched to prayers, as I was told, to the tune of "Believe me if all these endearing." Mr. Poco kindly pointed out the popular men, but an old friend suddenly called him, and he left me somewhat abruptly, after introducing me to a Mr. Proctor, who seemed like one of my own class, and with whom I felt at once quite at home...
...root, and room become roof, room, root, etc. The sound he gives to such words as boat, home, comb, throat, spoke, coat, poke, etc., is unlike anything I ever heard before, and has to be heard from the lips of a genuine up-country Yankee to be understood. Duty, tune, lucid, blue, etc., become dooty, toon, bloo, etc. Past, fast, last, etc., invariably parst, farst, larst, only the r is not distinct. Whether he is right in saying demand, command, castle, example, I won't undertake to decide; he certainly has much authority on his side. Perhaps, however, the safest...
This is the old worn-out chord which twanged last year to the tune of "Harvard Indifference," but the fact is, that indifference is the one thing here which "pays." A premium is put on loafing, for the loafers have the easiest time and no one thinks the less of them. Exertion is not only not encouraged, but it is scorned. In England they say that to be anything at the university, a man must do well one of the three R's, - Read, Ride, or Row. There, the man who reads may become the Senior Wrangler, or take...
...notice, and performed in such a manner that the audience had no occasion to remember the hasty preparation. The part of Mephistopheles was admirably acted, and his singing was, on the whole, the best in the burlesque. Faust looked and played well, though his singing was occasionally out of tune. Imogene was surpassingly beautiful and entirely natural. Her scene upon the return of Alonzo was trying, both to the feelings of the audience and to the wig of the heroine...