Word: affectionate
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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"These are very excellent and varied words," says the Victorian, "highly connetstive; some of them trip together delightfully; only, what do they mean?" Irresistibly the mind of the Victorian runs back to that first love affair of David Copperfield's, when Miss Shepherd, whom the Misses Nettingall outrageously stood in...
The play is unusually well mounted--the thunderstorm and the sunrise deserve much credit. Mr. Faversham makes the Faun singularly attractive and entertaining and at the same time sensible and convincing. A less capable actor would make his speeches on free self-expression and unsatisfied affection seem anarchistic or worse...
The death of Dr. H.P. Bowditch, like that of Judge Lowell only one week earlier, makes the impression upon those who had known him as of the fall of a great forest tree which all had learned to honor and admire. Scientist or jurist, it is, after all, the moral...
Before his death Mr. Mannering to whom Dr. Garret was under great obligation, expressed the wish that his friend marry his daughter. From the nature of the request Dr. Garret felt bound to comply with it, and although the marriage involved the sacrifice of a position of many possibilities, he...
The opera, which is in English, is set in the period just preceding the discovery of gold in Southern California, when the Americans and Mexicans were struggling for possession. Chonita, the daughter of a wealthy Mexican, is loved by the leaders of the rival forces, Captain Burton and Bernal. Burton...