Word: 1850s
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...stage the "Magnificent Scenic Mirror" (which Rathbone had found in the University of Pennsylvania Museum cellar) was slowly unrolled. Painted on muslin, it showed the myths and marvels of the Mississippi valley as sketched or imagined by one Dr. Montroville W. Dickeson, a Burton Holmes of the 1850s, and executed by the "eminent Irish artist" John J. Egan. What Egan's effort lacked in accuracy and technique was more than made up for by its scope and unfailing liveliness. It was a rare example of a recent but lost art, as far removed from the modern as New Caledonia...
Since the 1850s, when local option laws prohibited the sale of liquor to "any man against the known wishes of his wife," Kansas had made it tough-but not impossible-for a man to get a drink. By 1880, Kansas drys decided that they could trust neither the bartenders nor the wives, adopted an amendment flatly prohibiting the sale or possession of liquor...
Nicaragua's 52-year-old dictator was not really amused, however, about the possibilities of war in the Caribbean. In Central America this month the rains will end. Since the days of famed Filibusterer William Walker, who tried to take over Nicaragua in the 1850s, the dry season has been the shooting season. Tacho is well aware...
...East Hampton, L.I., the twelve-passenger, 40-ft. gondola, once a dazzling black and gold, in which Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning were poled around Venice in the 1850s, would be fixed up to glide again.† Willed to the village library by the. late Miss Alice Moran (her father picked it up in Venice in 1890 for $2,000), it had rested for a couple of decades under some tarpaper on the Moran lawn. The library didn't know quite what to do with it. The Ladies Village Improvement Society, which sponsors an annual summer fair...
...Ghosts as well as whores and gamblers haunted its streets and houses. The ghosts still do. New Orleanians swear that two waxen-faced Yankee soldiers parade through the corridors of a building on Constance Street, singing the Battle Hymn of the Republic. Dr. Deschamps, the dentist, hanged in the 1850s for murdering a girl he was trying to hypnotize, still haunts an apartment in 714 St. Peter Street. The Devil's own head hung on a gable in a house on St. Charles Avenue until gable and house were torn down...