Word: venders
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...slang - or, possibly, the authorities may deem it improper that "the shining cent" should be flipped from such an elevation as the second or third story. Whatever the trivial reason may be, certain it is, that although the College gates are closed but once in twenty years, yet the vender of melodies rarely ventures through them, conscious that in whatsoever remote corner he may establish himself, the venerable Ubiquity will invite him to depart thence. But in spite of the antipathy displayed for the organ-grinder by the powers that preside over our studies, the student himself will infinitely prefer...
...sufficient excuse for an absence from a college exercise. J. W. HARRIS, Sec. H. C." We think that an agent who would offer, about this time, "The Manual of Filling and Pulling," or "Every Man his own Dentist," would meet with as much success among students as the peripatetic vender of "The Science of the New Life...
...poor vender's table, a feminine form...
...distressed by the lot of this pitiful vender...
...vender of trinkets, in unshaded seat...