Word: connors
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...four o'clock. The University of Vermont has beaten John Morrill's team three games out of four this spring. So strong a nine as this will be sure to contest the game this afternoon closely. The batting order is as follows: Kinsella, s. s.; L. Allen, 1b.; O'Connor, l. f.; Banney, r.f.; Stewart, c.; Hill, 2b.; J. Allen, 3b.; Hogle, c.f.; Abbey, p.; Pond, substitute. Abbey is said to be a phenomenal pitcher, and he will afford our men a fine opportunity to show what batting ability is in them. Cook may possibly be put back at third...
There have been few stories in recent magazine literature so extraordinary in its plot and so forcible in its vivid descriptions as the late William Douglass O'Connor's "Brazen Android," the concluding portion of which appears in the Atlantic Monthly for May. If the first part of the romance was remarkable, it was at least within the lines in which story tellers are accustomed to confine themselves; but the character introduced in the second part is so inexplicable, and his action in the story so tremendous, that what has seemed but strange hitherto becomes now the merest commonplace...
...Brazen Android" is the curious title of a story in two parts by the late William Douglas O'Connor, which has the place of honor in the Atlantic for April. It is a story of old London, and its ancient life is brought vividly before us by the ready imagination of the author. Francis Parkman's second paper on "The Capture of Louisbourg by the New England Militia" is marked by the still and care which Mr. Parkman devotes to everything he writes, and Mr. Stockton's "House of Martha" continues for three more chapters in its usual vivacious fashion...