Word: courting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...scene opens at King Arthur's court at Christmas. During the festivities a huge knight clad in green enters and challenges anyone to exchange blows with him. Gawain accepts and testing the knight's axe, cut off his head at a blow. The Green Knight, however, unhurt picks up his head and rides off. Gawain is to go to a place called Green Chapel and receive his return blow in a year. After All-Hallow Feast, Gawain sets out for the Green Chapel. At Christmas time he comes to a castie, whose owner, a huge knight, tells him that...
...Haven and will occupy seats on the stage: Pres. Dwight, Governor Morgan Bulkeley, Lieut. Governor S. E. Merwin, Ex.-Governor Charles R. Ingersoll '40; Ex-Minister E. J. Phelps, Judge Henry E Howland '54, of New York City; Chief Justice Charles B. Andrews, of the Conn. Superior Court; Justice Edward W. Seymour '53, of the Conn. Superior Court; Rev. Joseph H. Twitchell '59, of Hartford, Conn.; Rev. T. T. Munger '51; D. E. Fairbanks, of the Mansfield College, Oxford, England; W. W. Farnam '66; Walter Camp '80; Professor A. B. Hart, of Harvard University; Hon. Simeon E. Baldwin '61, President...
...reputation was great. He possessed the quality which we now call personal magnetism and he had the love and esteem of companions He moved in a Bohemian world, but he was not of it. He was closely connected with his celebrated contemporaries and he was in favor at court. His unobtrusiveness is a noticeable trait. He had an unusual shyness of all publicity and was a quiet stately actor. His favorite parts were those of the Ghost, in Hamlet, and Old Adam, in As You Like It. He was, in fine, "a fantastical fellow of dark corners." He was devoted...
...last meeting of the council of the University Athletic Club of New York, it was decided to lease the Raquet Court building at Twenty - sixth St. and Sixth Ave. as a club house for a term of five years. Committees have been appointed to make the needed improvements and it is expected the house will be ready for occupancy by the end of this month...
...first match for the amateur court tennis championship of America was won by R. D. Sears...