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Word: woman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...certainly, is better able to do this than Mr. Riddle, of whose reading of Cleopatra I heard Mr. George W. Curtis say, "He had never before realized that a man could so thoroughly identify himself with the character of a woman as to make you forget that the woman was not speaking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CORRESPONDENCE. | 1/23/1880 | See Source »

...Vassar Man.THE Vassar Man is a woman. She is a woman who ruins all her prospects of marriage for the sake of a little French, less German, and a minus quantity of Latin. As near as I can make out, the Vassar woman was created chiefly to write little poems on tinted paper; to torture "classical" music out of grand pianos; to furnish paragraphs and jokes to the provincial papers, and to be adored by Yale Freshmen. The old man Vassar made a big mistake when he founded that Poughkeepsie ranch, for the ungrateful young dames who go there persistently...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TYPES. | 1/9/1880 | See Source »

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