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...known by any other title? Yes-ah, he-ah is sometimes called a cultuahed gentleman-ah. Does he study Greek? I should-ah say that he did-ah. He pwayed in Oedipus-ah lawst yeah. What did he play? He pwayed the curtains up awnd down-ah. Joke ah! Ha-ha-ah? What makes him part his hair in the middle? Only a step-ah in the cawse of his development-ah. Development into what? Into womanhood-ah. Another joke ah, be Jove-ah. By-the-way, what does he think of Emerson's idea of the non-combustibility...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...return of the Chinese students is bright and entertaining. The Fat-men's Corner contains many droll things; one or two, however, we notice that the Transcript would have done well to leave out. We would remind the editors that vulgarity is not wit, and a coarse joke is a serious blot on a college paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...could I," said Yung; and they both laughed, as if it were a joke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR FIRST FAMILIES. | 12/9/1881 | See Source »

...written a word yet. What a fool I am! How I wish, instead of spending the evening with that English-American Pressed-coat Poole, I had come home and ground! I wonder what this paper is on the floor. Why, it's the morning Echo! 'E??? Echo, ha! ha! joke. Give that to their item editor, poor thing! What's this editorial? 'The Greek Play.' Oh! take it away. Throw paper in the fire. What wouldn't I give for a dozen Little Neck clams. Well, there goes the twelve o'clock bell, and I must brace. Think...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ALL BROKE UP. | 2/11/1881 | See Source »

...towards the end of our chat I became painfully aware that I had not accomplished my object, so I turned the conversation from morning prayers to early marriages. My young friend seemed to think I was meditating something of the sort [what sort?] and to consider it a huge joke [why?], for she only called me a silly boy as she bade me a "touching" [ambiguous] good...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACTS FROM A REJECTED SOPHOMORE THEME. | 1/28/1881 | See Source »

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