Word: citizens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...weeds proverbially do. On a general confession, it has been discovered, that every member of the school, with but one exception, is guilty of the use of slang, in a greater or less degree; and that exception - oh, my country women, is from over the border, an English citizen. It is amusing to find also, that while some confess their delinquencies with contrition, there is a strong party which firmly defends slang on the ground of its wonderfully expressive qualities. One little word, of Lasell manufacture, consisting of but four letters, contains in its one short and suggestive syllable...
...individual with the pile of papers held out my passport to me and calmly told me that I could never enter the University on that passport; there was a mistake in it which must be set right again before they could be sure that I was an American citizen. Not being very fluent with my German just then I did not dispute the matter with him, but took the passport and departed, feeling decidedly "sat upon." I hurried to the American legation, had the mistake rectified, and was back again in less than an hour; but it was too late...
...told us that she would go into a trance. From the expression of her countenance and the contortions of her body, I thought that it was more likely that she was going into a fit, brought on by a too liberal diet of green fruit. But the aged citizen who met us at the door, and who seemed to be a kind of manager, assured us that it was positively a trance, and a superior article...
...order of the Directors of the Dining Association, admitting ladies to the side room at lunch and dinner, will not be rescinded unless vetoed by the Corporation; therefore when the Bursar ordered the notice to be removed, he was acting without any authority whatsoever, more than any citizen of Cambridge would have...
...idea of ignorance and indifference as regards parliamentary law, these reasons will commend themselves. Those who make the proposition appreciate to the utmost the importance and necessity of the training which the Union now gives, but they feel also that every man who purposes to be a good citizen ought to understand the workings of the law-making bodies of his country; and they fully believe that, in a Legislature of the nature intended, he would be enabled to gain such an understanding. They wish it distinctly understood that this new society will be in no way antagonistic...