Word: capitol
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Crane and company opened a two weeks engagement at the Hollis Street Theatre last evening in the new American comedy "The Senator." The play is a satire on the American habit of always being in a hurry. The play wrights have selected a field hitherto unworked-life at the capitol, and have produced a comedy that is admirable in every particular. Mr. Crane has found in Hannibal Rivers, the senator, a role peculiarly adapted to his talents, and his success in it may safely be said to be greater than in any role he has previously essayed. His reception last...
...evening sang at De Give's Opera House. The concert was followed by a dance given by Mr. Hall, at the Kimball House. Thursday afternoon a reception was given by Mr. Grant, at which the clubs gave a short concert, and in the evening another reception at the Capitol City Club was attended. Leaving at 2. a. m. Friday, a stop of six hours was made in Washington, and New Haven was reached at five Sunday afternoon...
...were compelled to eat an unworthy Christmas dinner in the crowded station dining-room at Baltimore. At Washington, during the ten minutes halt a score of men under the lead of Shippen, second bass, whose home is in that city, ran up the hill to the base of the capitol in order to catch a glimpse of the beautiful city. The natives were much astonished at the invasion...
...bronze tablet is to be placed in the Capitol at Washington to mark the place where John Quincy Adams fell in his last illness. The tablet will be circular in form and will bear the inscription, "John Q. Adams, February 21, 1848," around the edge, and the word "Here" in the centre...
...Archaeology and Art: Babylonia and Assyria, - History of Assyrian art. The great cities of Assur (Kileh-Shergat), Nineveh and Calah; their palaces and temples. The Assyrian palace; its construction and plan; its sculptural and pictorial decoration. The vault, the arch, the column, the capitol. Historical sculptures and enamelled bricks. Religious sculpture. Bronze work. [Industrial arts. Babylonia and Assyria in their foreign relations. Early relations between Egypt and Babylonia; did any exist before the xviii dynasty? The Mt. Siani peninsula and the quarry-marks on the Tel-Loh sculptures. Relations with Elam; - with Syria and the Hittites; - with Phoenicia and Cyprus...