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Word: conning (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...particularly beautiful. The adagio was received with unmistakable enthusiasm; and at the end the audience insisted on calling Mr. Paine before the house. Although written in strict conformity with the dogmas of the classical school, traces of Wagner's all-pervading influence were noticeable in the first movement (allegro con brio), and in the last (allegro vivace). We should certainly take pride in the success of our Professor in a branch of art so rarely attempted by Anglo-Saxon genius...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...professional playing, we could give up this practice, and still play them on an even footing. We should then lose nothing, and something might be gained in the direction of gentlemanly games. We have endeavored to put this matter before our readers, touching upon the arguments pro and con, in a way to gain it a fair hearing, and place the action of the Overseers in its proper light. These gentlemen are at all times ready to receive communications from the students. The interests of both are in reality identical, and we are confident that a full understanding...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/23/1874 | See Source »

...cussin' in the 'Ebrew tongue, him not bein' allowed to cuss in Harabic, because of the peculiarly stringent nature of his religion! SCENE NO. 2: Death of Lord Nelsing. - On the right you vill notice a French ship a blowin' up, vith the materials on board a goin' con-trary to the laws of the attraction of gratification, and a goin' up instead of a comin' down, - all the result of the British waller. On the left a gun is a bustin', with nothink left a standin' within reach. In the foreground Lord Nelsing in the hagonies of death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ENGLISH SHOWMAN. | 5/22/1874 | See Source »

...con spirito) - Whe-e-e-e-e-e-er-r-r-r-whoo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/16/1873 | See Source »

What well was designed to be seen con amore...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SEMPER EADEM. | 3/7/1873 | See Source »

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