Word: couriers
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...April 26. Tickets for each concert are on sale at Kent's Bookstore for one dollar. The program for this evening follows: Symphony in C-minor Haydn Symphonic Poem, "Wallenstein's Camp" Smetana Concerto in A-major, No. 2, for pinafore and orchestra Liszt Overture to "The courier Berlioz...
...Capture of Combles Ends Brilliant Campaign," was the headline The Charleston News and Courier placed over its account of that Franco-British victory. The phraseology gives one a start, but it is quite correct; this war has altered the meaning of words old as the language. It was a campaign for the possession of Combles; and this campaign was an incident of what? The battle of the Somme. What was a battle before this extraordinary war began? An incident in a campaign. What is a campaign now? An incident of a battle...
...Indiscretion of Truth" came in. Truth was a maiden fair to see. She rashly wrote to one man that she would meet him at an inn and be his bride. He sent her an answer that he could not be there, and chose a trusted friend for his courier, and the friend had to make believe he was Truth's husband in order to quiet his suspicions of the innkeeper. Whereupon Scottish Law declared Truth married to both men. But Truth really loved a third party, whose identity it would be a shame to divulge before you actually...