Word: acted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...work of a visitor to our university, we blush with indignation at his imprudent and unscrupulous liberty; if it be the work of a student, which we sincerely trust it is not, we blush with shame to think that one of our number can be guilty of an act so small, so utterly beneath contempt, and, worse than all, so morally wrong. The writer of the signature may have thought that he was perpetrating a huge joke in thus attempting to deceive whoever might look over the register; but a short residence among us would soon teach him that such...
Donovan, who was one of the umpires of the Intercollegiate League, will be unable to act this year on account of illness...
...Reisner, on the negative, denied that the Dependent Pension bill would have involved an expenditure of $50,000,000 a year, for this would signify that there are now 300,000 Union soldiers who have sunk to the level of pauperism. It is at least as just as the Act of Congress which granted extravagant pensions to the surviving veterans of the Mexican war. It is important for us to remember that the soldiers which the Dependent Pension hill was designed to aid, have to be supported anyhow; it is merely a question whether it shall be done...
...GriswoldFlorimel, a wandering bard, the victim of sundry mishaps, which are all set right in the last act...
...entertainment took place in the concert hall of the Metropolitan Opera House before a large audience. An original extravaganza in three acts, entitled "The Talisman; or, the Maid, the Monk and the Minstrel," was produced. The burlesque told the story of a marquis of the old regime, who sought to marry his daughter Marguerite to a certain Count Fleurdelis. The lady, however, loves a poor minstrel called Florimel. The minstrel, who is taken under the care of the Goddess of Truth, succeeds, with the aid of the Abbe Kakatoes, in setting at naught the designs of the marquis...