Word: properness
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...village tavern. I there delivered the letters alternately with short but pithy essays on philosophic and classical subjects. At first I translated these effusions into the "flash" dialect peculiar to these regions; but, gradually introducing words of a more refined nature, I brought the villagers to a proper use of their mother tongue...
...while, if it had been known when the evening pull was to be taken, many men would have availed themselves of the knowledge and gone out in the first part of the afternoon. Upon such little matters as this the prosperity of the clubs depends, and we hope that proper measures will be taken to secure the best interests of the individuals as well as of the crews...
...nose of the Harvard past the line in advance of the Union. There was no hope of winning the cup, which the allowance of time gave beyond a doubt to the Union. One or more of the men in the Harvard had gone into the race without proper preparation, and were incapable of doing much more than paddle long before the race was over, but the magnificent efforts of the sound men saved the crew and college from the disgrace of being actually beaten by a weaker-manned boat. My scrap-book does not mention Harvard's colors in this...
...ugly than the witches in Macbeth, showing in her own person an utter contempt for cleanliness, and secretly wondering at the foolishness of a man who cares to have his carpet swept and his table dusted? Yet how can the unfortunate goody be expected to know how to take proper care of a room? Possibly in her early years she was in service with some respectable housekeeper, but all visions of that time have grown dim through the long vista of years during which she lived with Pat or Mike, and a brood of children, in two wretched, dirty rooms...
...attention of the proper authorities is called to the expediency of putting up a bridge between Weld and Matthews, like those on Boston Common...