Word: meerschaums
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...distinguish between Caporal and Vanity Fair cigarettes by smelling the smoke; I call all the College officials by their first names; I am a good judge of a meerschaum pipe; have a large bill at Pike's; know all the actresses in Boston by sight, and am rumored to be personally acquainted with a leading star; I can distinguish between claret, burgundy, cider, and champagne; I can criticise a woman's dress, and can retail all the latest Boston scandal, and am considered to be one of the best card-players in the College. There, sir, read that list through...
...place for everything, and everything in its place.' A man at Yale nails his slippers on the wall four feet up, and then all he has to do of an evening is to wheel up his easy-chair in front of them and pull out his meerschaum." - Amherst Student...
Smoked my meerschaum while I slept...