Word: hallways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large chimneys and deep fire-places, and stands today in nearly the same conditin as when constructed. The framing is of oak and the heavy beams project into the rooms nearly three inches. The rooms are low studded and are surrounded by an oak wainscotting three feet high. The hallway is large and square and out of it leads an old fashioned winding stairway, extending to the attic...
...extra pair of them to make his calves shapely. After pointing out the error of his ways and telling that there should be nothing in the way of sham about a Yale man, they picked him up, took him to his home, and threw him into the front hallway into the arms of his sister.-N. Y. Times...
...architecture. It will be built in a spacious and thoroughly convenient style, and will present a highly artistic appearance. In height it will be three stories besides the basement, the latter having a dining-hall, kitchen, storerooms and boiler room. The first floor is to have a central hallway, parlor, smoking-room, library and matron's suite of rooms; the second floor will contain four suites of rooms, with a study and bedroom for each suite, and a large bath-room; the third floor will have three suites of rooms and a fine lodge room for the secret meetings...
...provided on the Elm-street side with a suitably attached knotted rope long enough to reach the ground. In each of the old buildings and in Farnam much the same contrivance is to be adopted in each entry, the rope, however, being attached at the highest of the hallway. In the old chapel an iron ladder is to be permanently attached in the rear, reaching from the window of the room in the gable to the sill of the blind window about eight feet above the ground. These fire-escapes are to be placed in position soon." Meanwhile Harvard...
...draw the curtain on this heart-rending scene, and as we glide down the long, lonely hallway, let us softly apply our ear to the door of a neighboring room. Hark! Do you not hear it, - the convulsive sobbing of a woman in distress? Patter, patter, patter, the tears go as they fall - upon what? Surely it can be nothing else, - upon a stiffly starched shirt-bosom, while the poor girl cries as if her heart would break. Ah, yes, dear reader, do not pretend to conceal your tears, it is no other than the unhappy "co-ed," with whom...