Word: arab
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...MONDAY.Semitic Seminary. Reader: Mr. John Orne. Subject: "Arab Art in Egypt." 7 Lowell street...
...essential for the victory in the struggles which have to be met. This may not seem to be the case. But it will be found that such discipline will serve us in the hour of danger as does the discipline of the trained British soldiers against the fanatical Arab...
First Street Arab - Say, Bill, be yese goin' ter take in commencement? Second Ditto - What commencement? F. S. A. - Why, Harvard, of course. S. S. A. - They be'n't goin' ter have none, this year. F. S. A. - How d' yer make that out? S. S. A. - Why, no LL. D., no governor, no Lancers, no punch. Where's yer commencement? - [Transcript...
...race for the Epsom gold cup of five hundred sovereigns in plate or specie for three-year-olds and upwards was won by Lefevre's horse Tristran, Hamilton's colt City Arab second, Ellesmere's horse Wallenstein third...
Plagiarism is rampant. The Columbia Spectator, in its last issue, in a scene of a street Arab pursuing a fashionable, copies an old Punch joke of Charles Keene's, published several years ago. Harper's Bazar also lacks originality and copies a late joke from the Lampoon, entitled "Etiquette - 'But I can't let ye up stairs till ye've put yer name in the dish,'" with a drawing almost facsimile of the original, without, it is needless to add, due credit being given. All of which affords interesting reflections upon the degeneracy of public morals...