Word: grind
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...legislative body, advocates the seating of the cabinet in Congress. "Babes in the Wood" is one of Olive Thorne Miller's bird articles. Agnes Repplier writes a defence of villains in fiction. Her article bristles with literary allusions, but bears traces, as her work has of late, of "demnition grind." "God and his World" is ingeniously reviewed with columns of quotations. "An Arthenian Journey" is more clever than entertaining. In "Over the Teacups" Dr. Holmes is not at his best, but introduces the slight sketch of a most effective maniac story. "Cart Horses" by H. C. Merwin is full...
...right to say as much as this, because the management of the Hall is purely and solely a business matter. After having been a member and gone through the grind for four years, one appreciates the immense importance, for health and work and fun, of having one's food at least eat eatable. Before Mr. Darling's administration it was not even this...