Word: blonded
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...sociability and smoking tend to introduce beer, and upon the foundations of this trio, all harmless in themselves, a very pretty character may be built - or destroyed. So with theatre-going - a profitable recreation; but the unfortunate predilection of modern society for the spectacular (a word intimately associated with blond wigs and pink tights) exists even in Cambridge. Sometimes, alas! sic itur ad astra, - which are hardly to be considered heavenly bodies...
...Museum.THE "Christmas Supper" has been the attraction at this theatre for the past week. The play is fresh and full of humor. If one can make himself believe that a woman can so successfully disguise herself, by simply wearing a blond wig and a ball-dress of a different color, that her husband's eye does not recognize her, then to him the scene where Madame Gaillardin flirts with her husband would be delicious; but we are all the time kept wondering that he can't see through the thin disguise, and thus we lose half...