Word: venders
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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John Lovett, the only fruit vender allowed in the college buildings, came to this country twenty-nine years ago. He spent his first night in America in Cambridge and since that time has never passed one away from...
...ubiquitous vender of clothes-wires has no sooner left the steps of Memorial than the sleek distributor of the seductive cigarette moves into his place. The fiat has gone forth, however, and inexorable fashion declares that the cigarette is no more to be used, as formerly. And the most energetic efforts of desparing dealers cannot restore this tyranical Humpty-Dumpty to his old place again, - not even with the aid of all the king's horses and all the king...
...former age - and there is Jones, the faithful janitor of many years, and Cleary, and John, the fruit man, who continually serve to remind us that we live apart in a world by ourselves, with its own peculiar laws and its own more peculiar characters. John, the fruit vender, has been a familiar object about college for one cannot tell how many years back; but there must have been a time when John was a brawny and ruddy emigrant from the old sod arriving at Castle Garden, full of the confidence of youth and Ireland. To every class...
...Briggs, '85, instead of Mr. Bolles, L. S., drew the cartoon of "The AEsthetic Image Vender," in the last Lampoon...
...Books for the opery" cried the boy near the theatre, Wednesday evening. "What opera?" I asked. "Why, Foost!" exclaimed the vender of operatic literature - Fact...