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...society has now the largest stock of blank books that it has yet put on sale...
...they call people "cads," and they abound in the most amusing little affectations. Their greatest happiness is to be taken for an Englishman-a joy not often vouchsafed to them. It was to one of these pitiful imitations-a young Bostonian-that a clever New York girl said: "Mr. Blank, I should think you would be so glad to meet Lord So-and-so; you know he is a real Englishman...
...revolted against the legal authorities. A time of hideous disturbance followed until Julius Caesar appeared." In the interest of Russian "law and order, " it was forbidden too at that time to paint Nero and Caligula in anything but rosy colors. Even now France in its Revolutionary period is a blank to us; and as for Sclav history as well might we search for truth there as for honesty in the Government service...
...interesting show, to which all distinguished men travelling in this country feel themselves in duty bound to turn their attention and to carefully inspect. Scarcely a day passes but we are flattered with the information that the famous Mr. So-and-So, the netted scholar and author, or Mr. Blank, the world-renowned actor, has been visiting the college. It cannot be said, however, that the role of posing as a phenomenon is in any way a trying one, or that the appearance of these visitors ever succeeds in disturbing very much the calm flow of college life. Occasionally those...
...loan of a borrowed book is not unusual, though it ought to be regarded as a social crime. Who that prides himself on his books has not painful vacancies among them? Here it is the second volume of an otherwise complete edition of Tennyson-missing ! And there a "horrible blank" tells of some unvirtuous borrower were has decapitated a valuable set by carrying off volume number one. These gaps in the bookcase are a standing grievance, and happy is he who can preserve his books intact...