Word: hocking
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Dates: during 1887-1887
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...Register" one of its former contributors, anxious to wield the pen once more, started a new journal, called "The Collegian," which is said to have been of unusual excellence. Among its contributors was O. W. Holmes, then in the Medical School, who wrote under the fictitious name of Frank Hock. One of the volumes of "The Collegian" contains "The Spectre Pig," "The Mysterious Visitor, Evening." "The Dorchester Giant," and other pieces from the pen of the since famous poet. But "The Collegian," good as it was, did not escape the fate of its predecessors, and, after the publication...
...should so far forget himself at a public dinner as to speak in such ungentlemanly and ungenerous terms of a defeated rival. There are, of course, two explanations: Either Captain Peters is no gentleman - which we are loath to suppose - or he was so under the influence of sparkling Hock and iced Moselle that he did not know what he was talking about. And so we dismiss his words as unworthy of further comment, for we are sure that they did not voice the thoughts of all wearers of the "true" blue...