Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...class with more accuracy than will the greater number of outside barbarians, whose attention has never been regularly drawn to the subject, and whose judgment has never had a chance for regular exercise; and it is still more reasonable to suppose that a limited number of men of fashion can select a more fitting incumbent for a purely social office than can a great assemblage, to many of whom society is but a name. As men must be nominated, then, it would seem decidedly best that they should be nominated by bodies which avowedly possess the qualifications adapted to securing...
...there is one thing sweeter; snugger, squeezer, kisser, hugger, than another in this world of love and sunshine, it is going to a college mixed. Smiles, sugar, and soothing-syrup, serenades and sadness, study nothing, go among 'em, everything. The old fashion of "going it alone" is played out for the better one of "going it double." Some may take their education "straight," but as for me, "give me 'mix,' or give me nothing...
...supposing that you have chosen your pictures with a little less regard for fashion and a little more regard for taste, you will find matters very different. If you have travelled, a couple of views of some well-remembered spot will carry you at once a thousand miles away. Before your cigarette is half finished you will find yourself wandering in fancy among the crumbling ruins of Italy, or beneath the battered castles of the robber-barons of the Rhine, or in the fading palaces of the Spanish Moors...
...Could fashion a woman's heart...
...been rather the fashion for the last few years, beginning prominently with an oration by Mr. Adams, if we remember rightly, to blame Harvard for not giving enough instruction in writing. People who saw in the Catalogue what seemed a very small number of themes and forensics prescribed, would hastily conclude that Harvard offered no other opportunities for training in writing. To show that this conclusion is unfair may justify us as undergraduates in defending our Alma Mater against an accusation in which some of our College rulers have joined; and as visiting committees of the Overseers have just been...