Word: beacon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...southerly side of the Back Bay fens. Construction work on section one of the embankment comprises 2700 linear feet of retaining wall and about the same length of earth embankment. The Commission will soon receive bids for the work on section two, which is located back of Beacon street. Along the wall, south of the Cambridge bridge, the esplanade will vary in width from 180 to 300 feet, and the portion in the rear of Beacon street will be 100 feet wide. It will be made of excavations from the basin, hold in place by concrete masoury, retaining walls, faced...
Brodeur, A G, 4 1-2 Beacon St., Somerville...
...Nostrand, W T, 482 Beacon St., Boston...
John Torrey Morse '32, who was the oldest living graduate of Harvard, and the sole survivor of his class, died last Thursday at his home, 153 Beacon street, Boston. He was 93 years old and death was due to the natural infirmities of extreme old age. Mr. Morse was a brother-in-law of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Up to 1860 he engaged in the merchant trade, but for the past 46 years he has lived in retirement at his home in Boston...
...play opens with the scene at the palace of Agamemnon at Argos, when the Watchman sees the beacon light that announces the fall of Troy. As he proclaims the good news to the people in the palace, twelve old men of Argos, who form the chorus, come on the stage, chanting as they march. They remain on the stage throughout the play, and in their choral odes express the popular feeling of the men of Argos in regard to the events portrayed there. Agamemnon soon returns from Troy, bringing in his train the Trojan captive, Cassandra, of whom Clytaemnestra...