Word: dame
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Europe, which greatly agitated the masses. This gave an extensive impulse to the teaching of the cloister and Episcopal schools, of which Paris by various circumstances became the centre and embodiment. In Paris all teachers came directly under the power of the chancellor of the chapter of Notre Dame de Paris. This was quite different from Bologna, where the schools and the town were both new, while in Paris, from the first, a well established and powerful body antagonized the system which ultimately would break the Episcopal schools and become a studium generale, or school for all with no religious...
...very pretty. Enter pirates, who make successful love to said maidens to a chorus from the "Little Duke." Exeunt, leaving Harvard and Stubbs to sing a duet. Erminie again. These gone, another duet by Dorothy and her mother. Cholomondeley follows, then a gag song by Harvard, to whom enters Dame Daffodil with a song from "Iolanthe," and the two accept each other as son-in-law and mother-in-law, respectively. Re-enter pirates and damsels, who sing a chours from "Ruddygore." Next in a solo, Dame Daffodil expresses her glee at the prospect of becoming "a very irascible mother...
...position of affairs at the end of the first act is this: John Harvard has denounced the pirates whom before he had intended to join, has obtained Dame Dafpodil's permission to marry Dorothy, and the pirates are just being led off to jail, where we find them when the curtain rises on the second act. The pirates behind the bars answer their lamenting betrothed in a song from Falka. The girls departing leave them to their fate. Follows a conversation between the pirates in the jail on the right of the stage, and Stubbs in stocks on the left...
...Dame Daffodil O. Prescott
FEATHER-WEIGHT SPARRING.Final Bout - Dame and Grew both looked fresh and in good condition as they stepped into the ring to decide the feather-weight sparring. Dame led with his left and Grew replied with a lively rally. Dame used his left and kept away from a good many of Grew's swinging rights. Grew hit several body blows. He kept up the same game in the second round and seemed intent on winding Dame. Dame replied to a swinging right with a straight right and left, both of which hit squarely. Grew forced the fighting and kept trying...