Word: bold
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Perhaps the best piece of writing in the number is the poem on "The Bold Subscription Man" which fits in well with a current popular air. The parody is unusually clever, and the characteristics of the "subscription fiend" are well depicted. Next in merit is "The Goody Destructa," another animal from "Lampy's Menagerie," which is fast growing to a fine and entertaining collection...
...than Moliere, who was apt to censure the vices of his time in thoughtful and didactic works. Labiche, nevertheless, borrowed much from Moliere, and, in fact he and his contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often well used by Labiche. "L'Auvergnat," acted by the Cercle Francais in 1888--"Le Voyage de M. Perrichon" and "La Poudre aux Yeux," also produced by the Cercle, are three of his most successful plays. Others of his best known works...