The Optimist and Pessimist Praise the Year Ahead
A literary contrast presents two speakers, The Pessimist and The Optimist. The Pessimist laments the passing years as dull and painful, while The Optimist celebrates life and beauty, counting three hundred sixty five days as a shrine of song and joy.
Smile Your Way Through The Judge’s Gloomy Case
A light verse encourages optimism as the speaker chides Mr. Grouch. It promotes a sunny viewpoint, saying life is fair and cheerful, and asserts the speaker will not budge from a stance of smiling daily.
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Grouch
House of Surprises in Downing Street
A vivid critique likens 10 Downing Street to a surprise packet. The piece notes shifting impressions from a shabby entrance to grand, labyrinthine corridors and a palacelike core, suggesting the residence defies simple retailing like a grocer’s shop.
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No. 10
Downing Street
Bloomsbury
Phillpotts
Arnold
Invincible Green Dog Captivates European Fashion
A curious new pet reportedly popular in Europe and now entering the American scene is a green wooden dog with a corkscrew Boston terrier tail and barbed wire like Airedale coat. Described as adaptable and tractable, it relies on fashion and novelty, passing customs without duty and becoming a symbol of chic was noted at Brussels Old Town tavern origins.
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America
Europe
Brussels
Old Town
Evolution of the term gent from medieval to Victorian usage
A compact note tracing the word gent from 16th century use in a Gray’s Inn supper and Evelyn’s crowd in drink to Queen Victoria’s era when gent became common among merchants and commercial circles, with Thackeray noting its affectionate diminutive status by 1842.
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Middle Temple
Evelyn
Queen Victoria
Thackeray
Chancery Notice Sets February Deadline For Parcel Partition
Legal notice in the Court of Chancery of New Jersey requires Lars Larsen and others to answer a bill by February 14. The suit, in the estate of Christine Larsen, seeks partition of a Newark area parcel described as starting on Erie Place and Brachway Street, with boundaries along Erie Place and Ashbel I. Barney to Henry M. Whitfield deeded in 1885.
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New Jersey
Lars Gustav Larsen
Charlotte Larsen
Lowsen Albers
Louise Albers
Mr. Albers
Carl Anderson Skuld
Eva Louise Skuld
Gustav Skuld
Caroline Skuld
Annie Skuld
Johanna Skuld
Elizabeth Salen
Mr. Salen
Domestic and Foreign Mission Society
Protestant Episcopal Church
Court ‘of Chancery of
James R. Hay
Christine Larsen
Larssen
Natey
County of Essex
Erie Place
Brachway Street
Erie Plate
Ashbel I. Barney
Henry M. Whitfield
Magex County
Erie
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