Word: helpfulness
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...shop where I first saw her. She was standing before a counter, and as I entered she glanced beseechingly toward me with her "violet velvet eyes, over which the silken fringes hung with such tender madonna grace." After a few such glances, that settled it. I could not help breaking my vow only to marry a girl with a million dollars and one lung. Soon she left the shop, and as I hurried past the counter where she had been standing I saw a card on the show-case. I seized it and followed, but when I reached the street...
...could be added to the list, and another course in Literature given, there might be some satisfaction in studying English as thoroughly as any other language, with a prospect of having such study recognized as at least equal to the labors of students of the classics. We cannot help thinking that it is a grave mistake not to give to the English language and literature a foremost place in our curriculum, - not to encourage a faithful critical investigation of the common speech of two great Saxon nations. That speech is surely as worthy of attention as is Hebrew or Sanskrit...
...shows it an abuse that must be corrected before it gains more ground. We say this in no spirit of hostility to the officers who were elected, for we think that most of them would probably have been quite as successful had the election been open; but we cannot help thinking that these same men would be better satisfied if they felt that they were appointed by the meeting at large, rather than by a committee which was previously instructed to nominate them. If it be necessary for the Captain of the Nine and Crew to have an Executive Committee...
...make the theatre seem open to the sky, and no masks will be worn. It is well established that the object of the mask was to make the features of the actors seem distinct to those who sat in the furthest part of the immense theatres, and also to help the adjustment of the mouth-piece, which was necessary to give sufficient distinctness to the voice. The size of modern theatres does not call for either of these artificial appliances; hence their abandonment...
...went on my chum, "there are lots of tart girls here, and you can't help having a good time. Just wait till I finish up this cigarette, and I'll give you an introduction to the whole of them" (he is not always particular about his rhetoric). I begged to be let off from such an ordeal, but expressed a desire to have him stop smoking and introduce me to his cousin before the next waltz. "All in due time, Hal, all in due time; but it's no use now. That chap talking with her is trying...