Word: bearers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...tearing out and presenting this article at the door of the lecture room at the exhibition, admittance will be granted to the bearer. The regular charge of 25 cents will be collected for admittance to the exhibition...
...Wise left the Virginia Military Institute in 1864 and enlisted in the Confederate Army where he served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender. He was the bearer of the last despatch from the general to Jefferson Davis. In 1867 he received his degree from the University of Virginia; fourteen years later he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, by President Arthur, and was also elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket as representative at large. After his defeat in the election for governor of the state in 1885, he moved...
...also performs the madrigals of the famous English school, Powland, Vilbye and others. This year the society renews its generous offer of the past few seasons by admitting any member of the Music Department to the concert for half price, i.e., seventy-five cents. The same ticket will admit bearer to the preceding rehearsal...
...herald of light, and the bearer of love...
...Colonel, whom we see writing his reminiscences of the war and smoking among his roses, must have been a real colonel whom its author had known and loved. In "The Sophist" we have much a variation of the perennial motif as Polonius might call the tragical-psychological. The bearer of the title-role convinces an enamored college-friend that there is no such thing as the power of love, and with such effect that "It's all over" between the friend and his affianced. The "Power," embodied in none other than the woman aforesaid, turns out to be too strong...