Word: bostonian
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...porkless day throughout the Bay State, so says the Massachusets Committee of Safety. This law has, however, a loophole, for the Committee has decided to exempt from this ruling the minute bit of pork which accompanies the Boston bean to the dinner table of every true Bostonian. It was, indeed, a good thing that this rider was attached, for the bean is sacred in our midst, and what the salt is to the egg or the yeast to the bread, the pork is to the bean. Whether the tinge of pork in reality adds to the luscious flavor...
...Bostonian paper, with honest and unhumorous dignity, has devoted a page of its reading matter each day to "Our War, -- Day." The blank days have now run into the sixties...
...matter of fact, it will be long before an American language is established in spite of the "janitors of our speech." Even after three hundred years of geographical separation a Bostonian understands an Englishman's conversation more readily than a Southerner's. We still manage to read English books with tolerable facility. There will be no slang lingua franca as long as the leavening influence of conservative instruction remains. In the words of Professor Palmer: "Look well to your speech...
...Hazel Mackaye Mrs. Samson, of Breezeboro, Miss Gladys Clark Mrs. Beales-Brown, of Boston, Miss Mary Sanger Evelyn Beales-Brown, her daughter, Miss Katherine Thaxter Billy Beales-Brown, her son, a Harvard undergraduate, R. F. Duncan '12 Miss Wilton, of Boston, Miss Caroline Solis Mr. Henry Madison, an elderly Bostonian, A. M. Hay '14 Mabel, a maid, Miss Marian Blackall Berthe, a French maid, Miss Esther Woodbury Butler, H. A. Van Landingham Higgins, footman, J. H. Lord '14 Jason, footman, J. K. Hodges '14 Jinjo, buttons, E. L. G. Hackes '14 Bridge-players, Miss Caroline Dudley, Miss Louie Hodge, Miss...
...Hazel Mackaye Mrs. Samson, of Breezeboro, Miss Caroline Solis Mrs. Beales-Browne, of Boston, Miss Mary Sanger Evelyn Beales-Browne, her daughter, Miss Katherine Thaxter Billy Beales-Browne, her son, a Harvard undergraduate, F. G. Carnochan '13 Miss Wilton, of Boston, Miss Gladys Clark Mr. Henry Madison, an elderly Bostonian, A. M. Hay '14 Mabel, a maid, Miss C. Louise Burleigh Berthe, a French maid, Miss Esther Woodbury Butler, H. A. van Sandringham Higgins, a footman, J. H. Lord '14 Jason, a footman, J. K. Hodges '14 Jinjo, a buttons, E. L. G. Hackes...