Word: tricks
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...Boston Herald persists in calling Mr. Soren Mr. Loren in its reports of the athletic games. This is an old trick on their part...
...demonstration of the Harvard students against Oscar Wilde at his Boston lecture is attributed to his "manager," who cunningly put them up to the trick without their knowing that he was at the bottom of it. The newspapers were also informed of the demonstration beforehand which insured a big audience. The game his manager will play to secure an audience in Detroit will probably not be known until after he has come and gone. He does not play the same one in any two places. - [Detroit Free Press...
...remain. If there is any just reason for its removal, those who wish it would do well to petition and state their reasons. If it is merely on the ground of animosity toward the authorities that such action is taken, the sooner those who are concerned in this boyish trick are discovered, the better for the college, and the worse, we hope, for the participants...
...Thet wuz a sly trick...
...accept your most kind invitation with whole-souled ecstasy. I fear not a little, however, for my reputation as a whist-player, in case you and I are partners. For with eRos opposite me I shall be in imminent danger of throwing away hearts and diamonds at every trick, and be tempted to look for the signals in your eyes rather than on the table...