Word: succumbing
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Dates: during 1876-1876
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...disclosures in Washington. We have been shown to be oligarchs, indifferent, pessimistic, given to "European clothes" and Eastlake furniture, "a cigarette outside and low thoughts within"; and to all this is now added the epithet "hypocrite." It is the straw which breaks the camel's back. But before we succumb entirely, let us examine this last blackening charge...