Word: chief
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...chief care of both was to bring up their child...
BOSTON THEATRE. The play "Drink" is so contrived that it keeps out the objectionable features of "L'Assommoir," which make it unfit for representation, and loses the dramatic and realistic merits of the novel. The chief feature of the play is the delirium tremens scene, which is as repulsive as any one could desire. "Drink" will be presented every night at 7.45, and Saturday at 2, until further notice...
Rose then the chief of his gang, the scurrile, buffoon-like Thersites...
...chief opposition to this project is expected to come from those gentlemen of the Corporation who are deeply interested in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; but that institution is surely on a footing sufficiently secure to have nothing to fear from the establishment here of a Museum, which the University, as an institution of national importance, should possess...
...many more serious impersonations lack; in the last two roles, she has all the traditions of the diva Schneider. M. Capoul sings and acts like the perfect artist he is, - excellent as the lover Ange Pitou, Marasquin, or Piquillo, and equally so, in a widely different part, Falsanappa, the chief of brigands. Mlle. Angele has great beauty, a fair voice, and is an agreeable actress...