Word: vendor
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Students are warned to beware of a swarthy vendor of smuggled cigars. He has been reaping a rich harvest by selling at $5.00 a hundred, "real 25 cent cigars," which would be dear at three cents a piece. Look...
...from a fond mother or perhaps a sweetheart, as full of hope and trusting courage the youth set out to win his way in college. Peanuts! how many tender associations cluster round this name! Thoughts of boyish joys, remembrance of generous treats, the hoarded pennies invested with the itinerant vendor - and all the recollections that manhood recalls to mind at the mention of this little word. And this parting gift these ruthless despoilers seized with pitiless bands uttering direful threats, unmindful of the tears and entreaties of this unhappy youth thus left at their mercy. "Take my life, but spare...