Word: boys
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Thomas Gainsborough was born in 1727 at Sudbury, in Suffolk. As a school boy he often played the truant to ramble through the country making sketches of the woods and fields. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he was apprenticed to an engraver named Gravelot. He soon gave up this place and went to the artist Hayman, who must have been a bad master for so impulsive a lad as Gainsborough. At nineteen he returned home and had the good fortune to marry the beautiful and accomplished Margaret Burr...
...bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle, and are carefully worked out in detail...
...another week the audiences at the Columbia, where the rollicking comedy "The New Boy" is being presented will have every night three hours of shaking laughter over this jolly play. Ever since the opening night the theatre has been crowded and the constant re-echo of vociferous mirth and the general verdict of Boston coincides with that of New York that there is more amusing material in "The New Boy" than in any comedy presented here for years. The action is lively and the comical situations follow each other as fast as professional foot racers. There is ginger...
...central figure of such well-known names as Frederic Robinson, R. F. Cotton, George Backus, Helen Kinnaird, Rachel Booth, W. R. Shirley, Charles Greene, Ella Gardiner and James Cody, will commence an engagement at the Columbia tonight, presenting here for the first time this pronounced comedy success, "The New Boy." "The New Boy" is a comedy in three acts by Arthur Law of London, and the author has reached the very climax of farcical effect. It was first produced in London nearly two years ago and is still being presented at the Vaudeville, Theatre, where it was originally done...
...education of meritorious undergraduates of the college from the town of Concord, either immediately after entering or later. If such fail to apply, then the interest is to accumulate until the principal shall reach the sum of $12,000, which shall constitute two scholarships; and whenever no Concord boy shall apply for either, the income for the year may be given by the corporation to another undergraduate...