Word: whateverism
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At a meeting of the depositors of the Mechanics' Bank, of Newark, last evening, it was resolved to recommend the acceptance of the directors' proposition to pay 75 per cent., together with whatever may be realized from the Nugent property.
I heard papa read out of the paper last night (of course you know I never read newspapers; mamma says very few English girls do) - now what was I writing about? Oh, yes. I heard papa read that Oscar Wilde had arrived. Now whatever do they make all this fuss...
The divine Oscar will soon be wafted to Boston, and then we shall see whether the cultured and literary inhabitants of "Modern Athens" burn and are utterly consumed with the fire of precious and supreme transcendentally, or in cold and unappreciative apathy turn their backs upon the king of aesthetes...
It seems as though the trial of Guiteau might be conducted without continual insults being thrown out at the man's family. Such remarks as are frequently made by the prosecuting counsel, as "he's one of the Guiteau family," or "she's like all the Guiteaus'," etc., are entirely...
"Whatever else he is," she rejoined, "the Yale man is a gentleman, which is enough to distinguish him very clearly from certain members of certain other colleges;" and with this she flounced out of the room, returning in a moment to thrust her head through the door with, "I think...