Word: acted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Winkle. The company is most happily cast. Mr. Wolff surprised the vast audience by giving a wonderfully fife-like performance of Rip, the Village Vagabond,- all the nice tone gradations of the sympathetic scenes were most artistically made, and one cannot soon forget the finale of Act 2, where Rip falls asleep surrounded by Hendrick Hudson and his ghostly crew. Miss Lane was charming-she can do nothing badly,- while Miss Leighton added to the fun of the piece in comc love scenes with Mr. Wooley. Messrs. Persse, Murray, and Read came in for a good share of favor...
...have true democracy in Harvard athletics; if we ever hope to give the lie to that too common talk of "clique-favoritism," and "prep-school pull" in the make-up of our teams, now is the time for the Athletic Committee to put an act on record...
...Legal-tender paper money is recognized as dangerous by economists and financiers.- (a) The legal-tender acts were passed as war measures: Cong. Globe, 1861-62 p. 523.- (b) A speedy redemption was anticipated: Cong. Globe, 1861-62 (Speeches on legal-tender bills).- (c) The Republicans passed an act almost unanimously to retire greenbacks, Dec. 18, 1865: Nation, LXI, 380.- (d) March 18, 1869. Congress passed an act solemnly pledging itself to make early provision for redemption of the United States notes in coin: E. C. Mason's Veto Power, S 61.- (e) President Grant urged Congress to retire...
...Legal-tender notes are a dangerous element in the finance of the United States.- (a) Their circulation is rigidamount is fixed by law: Act of May 31, 1878, Statutes at large, XX, 87.- (b) The government ought not to do a banking business.- (1) Government officials have neither personal nor material means to make a fiduciary currency flexible.- (a) Withdrawal would make the gold reserve unnecessary: Carlisle's Speech, in N. Y. Sun, Dec. 3, 1895.- (1) Maintenance of gold reserve has cost us at least $150,000,000 in the last two years.- (d) Whenever government reserve goes down...
...TAYLOR.REPUBLICAN CLUB.- The following men will please act as ushers at the Fogg Art Museum at 7.30 tonight: H. G. Barnes '97, V. Burnett '98, A. T. Carter '97, K. Delaittre '97, F. P. Gay '97, G. L. Grandin Jr., '97, I. W. Kingsbury '96, C. A. McGrew '97, E. D. Mulford '97, A. R. Sheriff '96, W. H. Sides '97 and A. Scott...