Word: de
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...De Lancy Kane opened the coaching season in New York yesterday...
...allow them to swallow you up in their own enthusiastic conceits, egg them on to do the same, and you will gain friendships in proportion only to the raw literary material that will be showered upon you by tomorrow's mail. And now let me introduce you to Mrs. De Sorosis and Dieu te garde, while I continue my psychological investigations - by the way do not forget to tell Mrs. De Sorosis that you are strongly reminded of the French salons of two centuries ago; it will procure you invitations as long as she knows your address...
...having bent over Mrs. De Sorosis' hand without bursting the seams in my waistcoat, which is getting tremendously tight, and having seen my friend safely launched, let me tell you what I can about these people. There are two women I know by the window; they are talking about somebody, and if you like "feminities" you will hear something interesting from that standpoint, I am sure. One of them is a grass-widow (cause, spiritual incompatibility), and the other is a bona fide widow (cause, a few years' bad cookery with digestive powers in favor of the lady now before...
...forthcoming representation of "Othello," at the Odeon Theatre in Paris. The version to be performed is not the fine poetical version of M. Aicard, in a fragment of which Mlle. Sarah Bernhardt played Desdemona at the Theatre Francais four years ago, but a new translation by M. de Graumont, which is said to follow the poet's text with considerable fidelity. This will make at least four versions of this tragedy which have been seen on the French stage since that of Duci's, in which Frederick Lamaitre played the Moor, in London, some fifty years since. In this, Iago...
...recent advertisement in a Paris paper for filles de ballet for the leading vaudeville theatre, it is stipulated that the candidates should not be over fifteen years old and should be accompanied at every performance by mother or sister...