Word: spends
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...would spend an hour...
...down last week and lost $5 to me at poker, has given me dead away. No more shall I fish the streams of Smithfield Centre, or stroll in the woods with my pretty cousin Priscilla. Uncle Luther will never invite again such a godless sinner as I am to spend the summer at his house...
...Hour says some people have queer ideas of what constitutes holiday recreation. A Harvard student from Yucatan went to spend his vacation in his native equatorial latitudes, and passed the entire time in fighting in one of the periodical revolutions indulged in by his countrymen. Refreshed and invigorated by this delightful sport, he returned in due course to pursue his peaceful studies at Cambridge...
Second, A late edition will be issued at nine in the evening, in order to publish, for the information of all whom it may concern, a list of the students who have gone to Boston to spend the evening. Their names will be easily procured from car-conductors, hackmen, pocos, and other trustworthy sources...
There is much that is contradictory and paradoxical about the Harvard man. He will discourse mellifluously through the day on the subject of Sweetness and Light and the Demoralizing Tendencies of American Life, and then will spend the evening smashing glass in a variety theatre. He is great in theories, - he has one ready for every occasion, - but when you get him down to practice, he is n't there. Too much trouble, really, you know! He can reform the world, - on paper, - but is too fond of his diurnal cigarette and siesta to pitch in and carry...