Word: mannerisms
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...vast multitude of editorial aspirants who are willing to sacrifice themselves upon the altar of college politics, there certainly can be found the required number of men whose intellects are sufficiently free from the trammels of insipidity and general profundity to conduct this highly intelligent organ in a masterly manner. It is about time that these popular fallacies in regard to the qualifications of college editors were swept away." - Cornell...
THREE came a confidential knock at the door the other afternoon, followed, with scarce a pause for an answer, by the entrance of a little old man. Closing the door behind him with brisk gentleness, he glided forward, and with the smile and manner of an old family friend, said, "Had your head examined? guess I didn't see you t' other day; have n't had your head examined, have you?" Politely motioning toward a friend who happened to be in the room, I pretended to be absorbed in my book. Renardy was in an easy-chair...
...another of his friends. Mere acquaintances judge you by your gait, your clothes, the sound of your voice, the tie of your cravat, and the smoothness of your hair. And even in this they do not seem to be consistent, often applying the test in an exactly opposite manner to different persons. But however that may be, believe me, there is not one of your pet oddities that does not go a great way in the estimate that some one forms of your character. I have here an excellent opportunity for boring my reader with a disquisition on prejudices...
...carpet, I feel uncomfortable about my umbrella, and wish that I had left it on the door-mat outside. And when we leave, I am sure that if I listened at the door, I should hear my late host straightening my chair, and in like manner obliterating the other traces of our call...
...Glory?" from Mozart's "Magic Flute." It was a piece which fully displayed the sonorous richness of his matchless voice, and at the same time the wretched insufficiency of Lyceum Hall for such a piece. In response to an encore he sang Millard's "Grand Old Ocean" in a manner which can only be imagined by those who have heard him before, and which we fear to attempt to describe lest we be accused of too open adulation. Mr. Morse's two songs, "Embarrassment," by Abt, and, in response to an encore, J. K. Paine's "Matin Song," were sung...