Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Yesterday afternoon Dr. A. P. Peabody read a very interesting paper on "Boston Mobs before the Revolution," before the Bostonian Society in the Council Chamber of the Old Boston State House...
...personal preferences. The only offset to this tendency is, that as the prejudices of the reading public of New York are apt to differ from those of the reading public of Boston, the errors made by a New Yorker will naturally be counter-balanced by those made by a Bostonian. But in the case of the recent vote, the number of votes was entirely too small to permit this influence to have much force. The only influence that can directly be drawn from the vote is that the reading public reached by the journals who took the matter in hand...
...through their speech. They talk of their "fads," and they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever New York girl said: "Mr. Blank, I should think you would be so glad to meet Lord So-and-so; you know he is a real Englishman...
...justice to the honored and revered emeritus professors of Harvard, it will be safe to say that in no instance has such an honor been awarded to more faithful work or to a more accomplished professor than in the case of Dr. Holmes, whom Boston knows best as a Bostonian, and the world of letters as a great literary character, but Harvard, in addition, as the shining light of the first medical establishment in the United States. - [Advertiser...
...Bostonian," exclaims the reviewer with pride, as he examines the "Hand-book of Boston Harbor," prepared by M. F. Sweetser and published by Moses King (Cambridge: $1). As he reads of the beauty of the Jerusalem Road and scents afar the delights of "Taft's," he almost wonders how he has been persuaded to spend the summer any where but on his native heath - or harbor. The "Hand-book" is an elaborate compilation of good illustrations and useful description, combining timely advertisements with appropriate extracts from Whittier, Thoreau, Howells...