Word: silk
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...remarks. The anguish of defeat is too great to be augmented by harsh words; but defeat, though unpalatable, is often salutary. Had Americans, and especially Harvard men, instead of deluding themselves with patriotic excuses, taken a wholesome lesson from their plucky and honorable defeat on the Thames, more silk flags would adorn to-day our Alma Mater...
...class the expense is reduced considerably below that which the present style of costume entails. Caps can be purchased in New York for $3.50 at retail, and still further reduction would be made if they were purchased in large numbers. The cost of gowns varies with the material used. Silk is the most costly, and its use would involve rather more of an expenditure than the occasion requires. Alpaca, however, answers excellently for the purpose, and the expense is not heavy. The cost of an entire costume can be considered as not exceeding $10.00, and a considerable discount from this...
...prize for the winning college at Springfield will be a set of silk colors. Each member of the winning crew will be presented with a silver oar, nine inches long, as a memento of the occasion...
...course she has her little coterie of friends, and betimes her truelove; but she is loved but little by the first, and soon forgotten by the second. This little woman is a keen judge of character though, and can detect a gentilhomme from an artiste as readily as silk from satin. For the weary cash-boy she reserves her surplus of good-nature, but to the flippant fop she is frigidly civil. She seems never to tire, and lets to-morrow take care of itself in a charmingly reckless way. Why worry about tomorrow? Goodness knows, she has enough...
...clock precisely the band struck up, "See, the Conquering Hero comes"; and the inimitable clown Socrates, arrayed in a seal-skin suit with brass buttons, and Cebes, the ring-master, decorously arrayed in a tall hat, black velvet coat, and green silk pantaloons, entered the ring...