Word: tom
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...days ago, seems to have elicited the support of many eminent persons. Among the distinguished names which appear upon the paper are: F. S. Fish, Roscoe Conkling, Me Too, U. S. Grant, Sarah Bernhardt, F. S. Fish, Anna Dickinson, Jumbo, Robinson Crusoe, F. S. Fish, C. J. Guiteau, Tom and Jerry, Madame Rentz, F. S. Fish and O. W. and J. The petition has been placed in the faculty letterbox, and, with such distinguished support, will probably be granted at once. - [Cornell...
...hard glove fight was to have come off this morning between Tom Bates of England and Jim Hurst of Boston, but it was reported last night that the authorities would prevent...
...expenses of an undergraduate for a full year, including the long vacation, the sum of $1200. Dr. Abbott says the English college student is the "university gentleman." "No student smokes in the streets; no gentleman student drinks at a bar; drunkenness is rare and disgraceful; the wine parties that Tom Brown used to attend are going out of fashion; college rows and scrapes are things of the past; the ancient brawls between town and gown are no more known; hazing is unheard of." The sentiment is that it is worse to be vulgar than to be wicked...
...regard to the privileges of men who want tennis courts laid out. In several cases different claimants have appeared for the same ground, and in other instances there have been disputes in regard to presumed encroachments by tennis players on the cricket and la crosse fields. The man "Tom," who lays out the courts, seems to have become a self-constituted authority, whose interests extend little beyond his white-wash bucket, and getting the money for his work. The popularity of tennis this spring seems to be on the increase, and numerous claims have been made on the ground available...
...Tom is now actively at work laying out tennis courts...