Word: countryman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...servant of Granger, was particularly good both in his acting and in his accent. F. W. Morrison '00, as the peasant Mathieu Gareau, was more in character than any of the other actors, and, with the aid of a droll voice, was well qualified to portray the stupid countryman. Dix and Morrison were the only characters who helped the audience realize that a comedy was being played. A. S. Hills '00, who took the part of Corbineli, was pleasing because he was perfectly at ease. The music and ballets added music to the play...
...listened yesterday with much interest and enjoyment to the eloquent words of my fellow-countryman, Mr. de Mauny-Talvande, who spoke on moral education in France at the Harvard Pedagogical Club...
...classes of French society, having studied in all the state-schools, from the grammar school to the university, having furthermore studied in two schools conducted by two of the most famous religious orders, I am able to prove, and hope to do so some day before my fellow-countryman leaves: First, that if there exist in the so-called middle and lower classes in France envy, jealousy, and hatred towards the so-called nobility (and I have my doubts about this) these feelings are not, as Mr. de Mauny-Talvande believes, the result of our bad system of moral education...
Impney, Droitwich, Oct. 26, 1889. MISS WAKEMAN: When I paid a visit to the United States of America some years ago, I had the great pleasure of a charming interview with your talented and distinguished countryman, the late Henry W. Longfellow, and promised to send him, for presentation to Harvard college, a miniature on silver of General George Washington, purchased at the sale of a celebrated collection of pictures, curiosities and articles of virtue in London. But shortly after my return to England I saw, with deep regret, in the Times, the death of America's great poet...