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Juvenile (for "boy") Lady (for "wife") Last (for "latest") Lengthy (for "long") Leniency (for "lenity") Loafer Loan or loaned (for "lend" or "lent") Located Majority (relating to places or circumstances for "most") Mrs. President, Mrs. Governor, Mrs. General, and all similar titles Mutual (for "common") Official (for "officer") On yesterday Ovation Over his signature Pants (for "pantaloons") Partially (for "partly") Parties (for "persons") Past two weeks (for "last two weeks" and all similar expressions relating to a definite time) Poetess Portion (for "part") Posted (for "informed") Progress (for "advance") |
Quite (prefixed to "good," "large," etc.) Raid (for "attack") Realized (for "obtained") Reliable (for "trustworthy") Rendition (for "performance") Repudiate (for "reject" or "disown") Retire (as an active verb) Rev. (for "the Rev.") Role (for "part") Roughs Rowdies Secesh Sensation (for "noteworthy event") Standpoint (for "point of view") Start, in the sense of "setting out" State (for "say") Taboo Talent (for "talents" or "ability") Talented Tapis The deceased War (for "dispute" or "disagreement") |
APPENDIX—NOTE D
HORACE GREELEY'S FAMOUS LETTER TO
WILLIAM H. SEWARD
November 11, 1854.
"Governor Seward,—The election is over, and its results sufficiently ascertained. It seems to me a fitting time to an-
