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...drawings in "Life"; yet as a whole, more finished and pleasant. Each is accompanied by its scrap of conversation, which we read, of course, and then laugh at abstractedly as we look again at the drawing that has as much to do with anything else as the joke attached to it. It is strange that this society picture with its inane joke dangling below should be so popular. Yet "The Lorgnette" is better than the usual collection of the sort, and will undoubtedly amuse its owner for twenty minutes, - perhaps all it was intended...
...Loeb also carried a huge transparency in the shape of an ink bottle, with a pen protruding from the neck. It bore the legends, "Watch for the joke on the other side," and "CRIMSON...
...octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many voices, the laugh, the joke, animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Edward Everett, the President of the day, rose to address them. To say that he was most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around...
...octogenarian, who seemed to live again in the memories of the distant past. When all were seated, a prayer was offered by the Rev. President Humphrey, of Amherst College. For a time the dining quietly proceeded; but soon the busy hum of many voices, the laugh, the joke, animated the scene. All were again hushed, as if by magic, when Mr. Everett, the President of the Day, rose to address them. To say that he was most happy, is feeble praise. He was eloquent, brilliant, touching: - and as he read, in the sea of intelligent faces around him, the effect...
...Annual joke in the Yale News: The game at Harvard was lost by the Yale freshmen simply from over-confidence and sheer carelessness...