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...remarkable play by the Yale endrush, who, catching the ball with skill which would have made Nausicaa and her maids turn green with envy, run with the speed of a winged Mercury toward Harvard's goal, at the same time displaying to full advantage, a row of pearl-like teeth, and a beautiful pair of side whiskers, through which the gentle zephyrs softly whistled as he proudly bore his treasure down the field. A touch down was made, from which the full-back kicked a goal, which, considering the perfect symmetry of the curve described by the ball in passing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Foot Ball. | 11/27/1885 | See Source »

Brutal, gashed, and swollen faces; wide gaping mouths, which opened for the last time to utter the death-shriek, and are now fixed forever in rigid agony; jagged, discolored teeth, sunken cheeks, knitted brows, dead, sodden eyes, awful contortions, ghastly smiles, hideous leers, faces of men and faces of women, faces of the young and faces of the old, faces which reek with the slime of years of vice and misery and despair; faces which Dante, groping among the damned, might have dragged from hideous, steaming depths of Lethean mud, and flung forth to front the unwilling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Description of the Paris Morgue. | 2/25/1885 | See Source »

...they take a better place than the library reading-room ; or, if they must be constantly and uninterruptedly chewing, they try something more quiet than peanuts or candy,-say, chewing gum. Chewing gum is both soft and sweet, is warranted not to hurt the tender gums or the growing teeth, and possesses the additional advantage of being able to be used with comparative quiet. It is perfectly harmless ; even the smallest child can use it without injury. Moreover, the late Lydia E. Pinkham recommended it, and thousands have testified as to perfect efficiency. With such a valuable article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/29/1885 | See Source »

...Harvard Alma Mater sat still and lifeless as the colossi in the Egyptian desert. Then all at once, like the commander's statue in Don Giovanni, she moved from her pedestal. The fall of that "story foot" has effected a miracle like the harp that Orphens played, like the teeth which Cadmus sowed. The plain where the moose and the bear were wandering while Shakespeare was writing Hamlet, where a few plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans under the weight of the massive edifices which have s rung up all around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Old Holmes House. | 1/29/1885 | See Source »

...their originality and ingenuity, others are completely bewildering in the wild luxuriance of imagination which they betoken on the part of the translator. For instance, Virgil is made to say in "Impositi rogis juvenes ante ora parentum," "And the boys were imposed upon by the rogues in the very teeth of their parents." Another from the same source, "Hunc Polydorum auri," "A hunk of gold belonging to Polydorus." Horace fares little better when the verse " Parcus deorum cultus et infrequent" is rendered, "The park of the gods was not frequently cultivated. "Another one, "Exegi monimentum are perennius," "I have eaten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Latin at Sight. | 1/20/1885 | See Source »

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