Word: mannerisms
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...initial concert of the Technology Glee Club was held in Boston on Jan. 2. A programme of twelve numbers, including a guitar solo, was rendered in a creditable manner...
...summer in England between the famous Renshaw brothers and the Clarks, because these games seemed to be a fair teat of two distinct styles of play, which may be said to be fairly representative. Mr. Evelegh, who was referee in these matches, recently expressed himself in the most unprejudiced manner as very much pleased with the play of the Americans, which, of its style, was the best he had ever seen. But he also said "that the style was entirely wrong. Against men of the Renshaw 'calibre,' they played far too near the net, and when the Englishmen really...
...ride his bicycle if he were otherwise than sober. It was a great educational reformer, because it enabled persons to go from one end of the country to the other in a fortnight at little expense, and spend their holidays in a reasonable n a reasonable and rational manner...
...certain Mr. Billings has recently written an open letter to the President and fellows of Harvard College through the columns of the Turf, Field and Farm, in which he attacks the Harvard Veterinary School in a very vigorous and somewhat excited manner. The gentleman that wrote it assures his readers that "he is not a 'sore head' " but that he looks upon the "subscription plan" by which the school is carried on as "a disgrace to Harvard College and as bound to exert a most baneful influence, by its example, on the future of American veterinary medicine." This subscription plan...
...curious stories about his eccentricities. He did not like to go into society, and would sometimes spend an evening out at the urgent request of a particular friend. Although oriental in most of his habits, he had a great aversion to tea. This was shown in a marked manner on one occasion when, being asked at the supper table if he would have a cup of that beverage, he greatly astonished the hostess by almost shrieking out. "Tea! boiled hay!" At another time he manifested in a singular way his distaste for the society of the gentler sex. While talking...