Word: complexion
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wednesday and Thursday evenings of this week the Banjo Club, on invitation, took part in the Cadet minstrel entertainment at Music Hall. The audience on both evenings was large and appreciative. Though the members of the Banjo Club were undistinguishable by their nearest friends, since they had assumed the complexion of dwellers of Ethiopia, nevertheless they were heartily applauded as they appeared upon the stage and rendered the most appropriate piece entitled "The Darkie's Dream." The club also played "Stephanie Gavotte," while four dusky maidens danced a clog. The work of the club was very good, in spite...
...certain member of the university being destitute of a subject for a descriptive theme wrote upon the subject "myself." He described himself as remarkable for his ruddy complexion, good dimples, and his ability to eat a yellow banana in four seconds and a red one in six. The instructor returned the theme with the following comment: "I should really like...
...recent remarks of President Eliot and other educators, have directed fresh attention to religious teaching in public schools. To one who has followed the discussions of this subject for some years past, it is painful to observe that they are taking on a political complexion...
...know so much about dreams that we may make them to order; and that the dream book will have vanished, except from the work basket of some aged country maiden of seventy years or more, or from the casket of some boarding school miss, where it will lie amid complexion powders, scented stationery and love-letters...
...things continue to so at the pace they are going at present, Oxonians who went down in 1880 will be unable to recognize the face of their Alma Mater in 1890. She is not only changing her normal complexion, but also her physical features most rapidly. Four new buildings of importance have sprung up within the last two years. The most important, the new school, is yet in an unfinished state, Magdalen and Trinity are greatly extending themselves, and a new college is nearly completed which will work great results in bringing old-fashioned Oxford up to date...