Word: whose
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every week. At these appeared as many of the lions as could be induced to be present. The rising young men and women were invited and were sometimes allowed to read one of their own productions. At one time the great attraction was a certain scientific defender of Orthodoxy, whose quotations were apt to be as fabulous as his support of prohibition principles was stormy and inaccurate. The blue-eyed and vegetarian supporter of idealism would of times be present and gently insinuate that all these new ideas were to be found in Plato. Papers were read...
...Femmes celibres" the secret of being fascinating without beauty, and determined to make herself a martyr in the cause of antiquated gas-bags and dyspeptic hierophants. And many is the versified heart-throb she is obliged to listen to in her capacity of mother to all the intellectual neophytes whose only excitement is her weekly reception, where they hang upon the lips of Asphyxia and her friends and pay less attention to the "flow of soul" than to the material formations in corsets and crinoline. And many is the moody tit-bit dedicated to this young lady who fully appreciates...
...your audience had ever met or heard of one. And so, instead of a handsome, charming, dazzling, fascinating creature, that bewitches with her art, I care not if it be good or bad, you show some whining, tearful, beseeching virgin, or some simple, twaddling, namby-pamby chit, whose only excuse for being good is that she don't know...
...society has been organized in Germany whose object is to shorten hours of school work, and introduce and cultivate out-door games among the students of the higher schools...
...funeral of the late esteemed Jesse James, murderer by profession, the "President of Liberty College" officiated and delivered a touching eulogy upon the deceased. We have no doubt Liberty College is one of the Western institutions whose curriculum "is fully on a par with Harvard...