Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...practice of this art grossly slanders his ancestors. The ghost of di Luto, his great grandfather, appears to him at midnight in the garden of his villa and decreses that as a punishment for his irreverence, Machiavelli shall ever afterwards lie, but, upon the intercession of his daughter Lucrezia, di Luto agrees that if by telling a lie he shall ever be able to tell the truth, the curse shall be removed. Machiavelli, who can now only lie, at once conceives a great desire to tell the truth...
...play this year, Franz and Paul von Schonthan's "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen," is perhaps the most farcical which the Verein has yet presented. Martin Gollwitz, a professor in a small town, whose wife and unmarried daughter Paula are away on a visit, consents to the production of a Roman tragedy entitled "Der Raub der Sabinerinnen," which he had written when a student and had recently discovered among some old manuscripts. An itinerant actor named Striese undertakes to present the play, and rehearsals are well under way, when Mrs. Gollwitz and Paula unexpectedly return to town. Mrs. Gollwitz is very...
Meanwhile, the married daughter, Marianne, suspecting her husband, Dr. Neumeister, of having had a wild youth, so pesters him to confess that he concocts for her benefit a lively tale, on condition that she will never mention it. She, however, immediately confides it to her mother, who then stirs up an endless amount of trouble...
Professor Sanger, who has been given leave of absence, is accompanied by his daughter, and by Mr. and Mrs. G. Sanger. He will probably not return before the middle of March...
President and Mrs. Eliot will sail for Europe from New York tomorrow, on a short visit to their daughter, Mrs. Charles Eliot, and her children, who are now in Switzerland. They expect to return to America early in the spring. President Eliot has recovered from his recent attack of the grippe and is in his usual good health...