Word: 19th
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sullivan Macy, tracing with infinite patience signs and symbols upon her hand, brought Helen Keller along a lane to light. Years later she could read and write. Years later still, when she was an author, lecturer, philanthropist, Mark Twain could say that the two most interesting characters of the 19th century were Napoleon and Helen Keller...
...members of the University golf team have been given a special invitation by Frank Craven to attend the Monday night performance of "The 19th Hole", which is being given at the Hollis Theatre this week and next...
...Tragedy has no appeal to me, comedy is my trade, and I intend to stick to that form of drama", asserted Frank Craven, 'who is playing in. "The 19th Hole" at the Hollis Theatre. "I have tried Shakespearean tragedies, and must say that I am not inclined toward them...
...course, in a play like "The 19th Hole", in which there are some jokes which are based on golf jargon, a group of ladies might fail at first to register on some things, but for the most part they usually catch on a few minutes later...
...explain Hardy's position in English letters, it is necessary to push the story back to the middle of the 19th century, when Thackeray was writing his voluminously graceful fictions, when Gladstone was hobbling inelegantly through London, when Queen Victoria was swishing around her palace in long dresses. Hardy was then a small boy who took special pleasure in walking through Wessex fields, dawdling to talk with old men as they drove their cattle along the roads. The moors stretched out around the village of Upper Hampton where he lived; at night the wind blew a mist across them...