Word: birching
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...large limb was yesterday broken from a birch tree near the library, by the weight of the damp snow upon...
...regular contributor to Life, the Detroit Free Press, Texas Siftings and the Continent. Mr. Lummis is at present engaged in writing a work on the "History of the Use of Tobacco," as well as preparing a second volume of his "White Mountain Sketches," and also of his "Birch Bark Poems." He is also engaged in editing the Scioto, (Ohio) Gazette...
...class ode will be competed for by those members of the class who do not rank as commencement men. A goodly number of pedagogues have departed to wield the Birch in winter schools, but the proportion of teachers from the senior class is very small. Reeve's American Band of Providence has been engaged by the senior class to furnish the music for commencement week. Vocalists for the concert have not yet been selected. Owing to the lack of cooperation on the part of the under-classmen the seniors have decided not to establish a lecture course this winter. Several...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 8 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. The San Francisco Minstrels bring a very successful season to a close this week. Charles Backus and Billy Birch are as amusing as ever. The performance ends with "Beadle's Pirates for Ten Cents," a good burlesque of the more familiar "Pirates...
...morrow. The plot turns upon the contest between the mother (Miss Prescott) and her step-daughter (Miss Wainwright) for the affections of Fernand, the former lover of the mother. Louis James acts the part of Fernand very well. Next week, Tony Pastor's new Burlesque Company. May 31, Birch and Backus' San Francisco Minstrels, for one week...