Word: publicity
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...several thousand others) with a stoical indifference to their personal peril, and besought all to calm themselves. It was owing to their superhuman exertions that only one parrot escaped, and to their disinterested attentions that several young and lovely women were saved the disgrace of fainting in so public a place...
Heine had a very keen appreciation of anything extraordinary in sound, as is evident from his humorous treatment of Polish. He wrote a poem on the adventures of Krapulinski and Waschlapski, and he also made public the memoirs of Count Schnabelewopski, introducing the family servant, Prrschtzztwitsch, and other names, of which he says that, though they seem harsh in German, they are extremely melodious in Polish...
...make their guests at home. During the evening, -, Esq., made a brief speech in his usual happy vein, at the close of which he made the worthy couple the recipients of -. This valuable present was a well-merited testimonial of respect and esteem for the long and valuable public services of Mr. -, and was feelingly accepted by that gentleman in a few well-chosen remarks. After doing justice to a bountiful repast, the company separated at a late hour...
Such literary formulae may be of great convenience to editors and reporters; but after they have been learned by the reading public, they begin to lose, in a large degree, their effect. If an item of intelligence is worth mentioning at all (and, by the way, the fact of such worthiness should be more fully established than is generally the case), it deserves a distinct and appropriate description, and not one made up of cast-off metaphors and worn-out expressions that have already served to describe similar occasions, time out of mind...
College Days.THEY have been having a public rehearsal of the musical department at Ripon, and College Days has a full and satisfactory account of the proceedings. It pats Miss Alice Clark on the head for being a good player for one of her age, and mentions Miss Merriman for having performed her part in an artful manner. Did she ogle the audience, or what...