Word: done
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...island task was done; she turned away
...University Crew" had ample justice done it at the hands of Mr. C. W. Plummer, who hoped to see everybody at the boat-house, trying for the crew...
...been fearfully slack and hesitating, and has given them many a needless out. The only way in which this can be remedied is to persuade enough men to practise on Jarvis to play a regular game, and to keep scores. It is to be hoped that this will be done at once, that our cricketers may be seconded in their efforts to make the game a popular one here...
...there any reason why the crews should consume a long time in taking their positions, as is usually done? It tries the patience of spectators, and endangers the safety of rudders by continual backing...
...perhaps the most amusing bit of acting in the whole piece. Mr. Mackintosh's make-up as Lady Allcash was a triumph for Mr. Rothe and Mrs. Wilson, and in his duets with Fra Diavolo and Lord Allcash (Mr. Simmons) he obtained encores. The other characters were excellently done, and the chorus when on the stage refrained with admirable self-control from getting up to the foot-lights and monopolizing the acting, - a prevalent fault among amateur "supers...