Word: vein
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lighter vein Dr. Hart tells in parallel columns the happenings of a year from a freshman's, and from an instructor's point of view. An anonymous writer - can it be an Annex maid? - gives some clever Observations of a Wall-flower...
...revolted at the idea, refused to consider herself sacrificable to his desires, and sent a polite note of refusal. On receiving which he procured a carbine and bowie knife, said that he would not now forge fetters hymeneal with the queen, went to an isolated spot, severed his jugular vein and discharged the contents of his carbine into his abdomen. The debris was removed by the coroner...
...oration was "Time" ; he had chosen this, he said, because it was the only one of the four grand themes-"Time," "Eternity," "The Universe," and "Eighty-seven"-of which he felt conpetent to treat. The oration throughout was witty and brilliant, and was in the orator's happiest vein...
...seems now very much as if the vein of the Devil had been worked as far as it can be, and the Satan of Milton and the Mephistopheles of Goe the were to remain forever the completes and most perfect literary embodiments of the conception of the Spirit of Evil. The Devil is unique in that although other Christian ideals have inspired the painter, the architect, and the sculptor, the Devil alone has made a permanent place for himself in the very first rank of literary master-pieces...
...Yale and Harvard-individually as boys, and collectively as boat clubs-have frequently, persistently, and with malice aforethought, committed the crime colloquially called "putting on airs" over the oarsmen of what they are pleased to call "inferior," and "country" colleges," and then he naively remarks in the happiest vein, "we also cheerfully admit that this conduct is discourteous and unjustifiable." His remedy for our practice of "putting on airs." over "country oarsmen," is that, "since eminent lawyers agree that this offence is not a felony, nor even a misdemeanor, sensible people punish such actions by those most potent penalties, indifference...