Word: bit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...during the evening. The Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale read two selections from "Mr. Ingram's Double"- the Double's success at Governor Gorgeous' Ball, and the ruinous consequences of the imposture at the town meeting. Dr. Hale's reading lent an additional interest to this charming bit of comedy. Mr. William Winter moved the audience deeply when he read with much feeling "Lines Written a Few Days After Longfellow's Death." Mr. J. T. Trowbridge, of Arlington, portrayed the pathetic trials of a young play wright in the "Author's Night." Mrs. Moulton read "The House of Death...
...Chapel" is a bit of verse fairly well translated from the German of Uhland. The article that follows, "The Land of the Lotus-Eater," is a description of a town in the West Indies. The subject is interesting and well-treated...
...Zeke" is an admirable bit of description of a tragic incident. It is impossible to bring any charge of diffuseness or lack of clearness against...
...Identity," the first poem of the number, is a bit of verse very prettily clothing a sober thought...
...must not touch him with your hands. And it's a foul, too, if the ball hits your arm below the elbow. The great point about the Association game is that it is not so rough as the Rugby. Of course you cannot play foot-ball without being a bit rough, but it is not nearly so bad as Rugby...