Word: disappeared
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sumptuous repast, to host: "Our compliments to your kitchen and cellar. We have agreed to have a running match, and the one who comes out last will pay the bill. Will you kindly give us a signal to start?" The beaming host slowly counts one, two, three; the students disappear round the corner and are seen no more. - [Fliegende Blatter...
...next set of officers will necessarily have matters of unusual importance to deal with, as there is soon to be a change in the management of the hall; consequently great care should be exercised in making selections. We hope that the usual apathy attendant upon Memorial elections will disappear, and that all members will interest themselves both in sending in nominations and seeing that their votes are cast at the elections...
...fearing the proctor of the building would not be able to stop the revelry if it became too hilarious, secretly stationed two policemen near the room occupied by the students. The officers, however, as well as the faculty afterward, were somewhat astonished to discover the proctor on guard disappear every few minutes into the scene of revelry and each time emerge with a less steady step, until finally he was in a very joyous and light-headed condition. The gallant M. P. does not tell whether the proctor held his office after the eventful evening...
...here, and yet Columbia is doing a great work with the means at her command." The accounting for this lack of interest by saying Columbia is lost sight of, "surrounded as it is by other institutions of learning, libraries, and museums" is peculiar, as one would expect Harvard to disappear from public view for similar reasons. Mr. Fish seems to have forgotten Tufts, Boston University, Institute of Technology, and the "Annex...
...solemnly announced that with the spring season the present fashion of tight-fitting clothes is to disappear, and a sudden change will be made to loose and slippered pantaloons, if we may pervert the quotation...