Word: 1880s
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...Morristown, N.J., an enterprising theater manager touted Life With Father by persuading his doorman to dress up in an 1880s costume...
...London in the 1880s, Harold Bauer heard almost all the great pianists of the day. He saw the ailing Abbé Liszt at one of his last public appearances; he heard Paderewski's London debut. He remembers shaggy Anton Rubinstein, the elegant Hans von Bülow, and the widow Clara Schumann bent so low over the keys that her nose almost touched her hands...
...majority of these laws are rather old, dating back to the late 1880s. Under a 1893 statute, for instance, no goats, sheep, domestic fowl, swine, horses, oxen, or cows are allowed to ream at large through the streets...
Competition and the fight for existence made life precarious for the editors of the Magenta and the early CRIMSON. Operating on the proverbial financial shoestring and publishing papers with only the President's rooms for a newsroom, imagination and resourcefulness were the prime requisites for success in the 1880s and 1980s...
...face of this unofficial, unspoken attitude towards the theatre, undergraduates have been hampered, inconvenienced, discouraged, and occasionally clamped down upon, but never since drama became an important part of American culture in the 1880s have they failed to entangle themselves in theatrical activities of one sort or another. Before this period Harvard had some 250 years in which to lave in the Puritan tradition. In the seventeenth century, there had been no question of the impropriety of plays--their immorality was never doubted. Like singing, dramatics were not then against the College laws, but as Samuel Eliot Morison has pointed...