Word: dwarf
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race backward. Various objects of interest were exhibited to amuse those who took no part in the active sports, and to coax away the pennies of the verdant. In one tent, N. H. 2, were the Living Skeleton and the Bearded Lady; in a second, Hist 5, were the Dwarf and the Big-headed Boy; and a third, N. H. 6, contained a large collection of vegetables, especially some beets of mammoth size. Phil 5 contained a living crocodile, and was connected with F. A. 2, in which was a gorgeous panorama of Egypt and the Holy Land. Sanskt seems...
...applauded. Messrs. Urquhart and Sheafe, as the gold-spinning maid and her princely lover, acted and sang their parts to the satisfaction of the audience, Mr. Sheafe's serenade in the second act being particularly good. Mr. Cowdin's song, "Awfully Clevah," was well received. The part of the dwarf, Rumplestiltskin, was played by the by-no-means dwarfish Mr. Donaldson; but, as it was hardly suited to him, his success was not so great as in the Friday performance. The costumes were capital, particularly those of Messrs. Story, Donaldson, and Twombley, and that of Mr. Churchill, who made...
...know to our cost; yet, on the other hand, a good many seldom see their classmates except in recitation, at the table, or at society meetings. Harvard men are almost proverbially taciturn. "Deep streams run still," some one may answer. True; yet this should not be allowed to dwarf our social life, and probably it does not to any appreciable extent. Pressure of varied occupations, and a disinclination to move from one's easy-chair when comfortably seated, are more frequent causes why we see so little of each other socially...