Word: throat
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...student's thirsty throat...
...more than the undergraduate, who when the torments of the class-room are over for the time, has field to his room for a quiet smoke or an hour's study, and is interrupted first, by the dark-skinned man with the earrings and silk handkerchief knotted around his throat. He knocks softly, and entering mysteriously, informs you that he has just arrived from Havana on the steamer, and has, with infinite pains and danger succeeded in smuggling a few thousand cigars, which he happens to have in the bundle that he carries under his arm, and of which...
...with others on account of its exceedingly ugly shape. The top is flat and very wide so as to admit of quite a space wherein to return volleyed balls, and the curse at the top is very rightly done away with, as there was no use for it. The throat of the racket is also very wide and has the new under curve, which, leaving more space at that part of the racket, aids very materially in returning balls which are volleyed directly at a player. In fact, the manufacturers have prepared a racket suitable to all good players...
...from the previous day being class day, the 22d will be a red-letter day on account of the Yale game. There is little danger, with so much fun in prospect, that many will leave before that date, and it is especially necessary that they should not, for every throat and pair of lungs in the university will be called on to support the nine in their last game for the championship. But it is of almost equal importance that a large number of persons should go down to New London to the race. The tug must not be occupied...
...announced that Mr. George Riddle will not play Romeo to Miss Anderson's Juliet tomorrow evening, as he is suffering from a severe sore throat. J. S. Haworth of the Museum company takes his place...