Word: tradesmen
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Fellow-tradesmen can't agree...
...solve; but the truth remained that every one collects something. Little boys collect birds' eggs; little girls, postage-stamps; theatre-goers, photographs; young ladies collect gentlemen's cards; older gentlemen collect tracts and MSS.; middle-aged ladies have a perfect mania for old lace and delft; and, finally, tradesmen are crazy to collect bills...
...Lafayette College Journal, in an editorial, publishes a list of tradesmen who have advertised in its columns, saying: "Preserve this list for reference, and when you can, help those who help the Journal." Here follows the list, consisting of clothiers, stationers, and so forth, and at the end, in the lowest and most humble position, a preparatory school! O Knowledge, where art thou fallen...
...strongly suspect that he is a brother of my old classmate, of whom you have often heard me speak. He had a great deal more money than he knew what to do with; and, as a natural consequence, he patronized the best (i. e. most expensive) tradesmen that he could find. His clothes were always of the newest cut; his cravats a week or two ahead of anybody else; his cigar-boxes and wine-bottles had the most recherche labels in the world; and his mantel-piece was covered with autograph portraits of the leading theatrical celebrities...
THEODORE HOOK'S old joke has been played upon a Cambridge student, whose room was overrun not long ago by half the tradesmen in town. Among other articles some silverware and a piano were delivered to him. The Journal thinks the hoax "cruel and childish...