Word: fathers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman wrote home to his father: "Dear papa-I want a little change." The paternal parent replied: "Dear Charlie-Just wait for it. Time brings change to everybody...
...influence the Princess, but are discovered and cast from the gates in disgrace. This second act is full of clever satire and bright dialogue, showing Gilbert at his best, and the music also is brisk and catching. Burning with rage and shame King Hildebrand sizes upon Gama, the Princess' father, and declares war against the "girl graduates." The learned maids, true to their theory, array themselves in armor, and aided by Arac and his brethren,-relations of the princess, offer defiance to the opposing army. All ends well, however, and the Princess, giving up philosophical pursuits, consents to marry Prince...
...father of Prof. Willard Fiske, late of Cornell University, died in Ithaca on Sunday, at the age of eighty...
...trivial the same expressiveness remains as of old. Every Irishman is about to break out into his native brogue and Matthew Arnold, true to life, stands hesitatingly scanning his lecture notes. Well may the Lampoon be proud of her great son; but Mr. Atwood can better be called the father of Lampy...
...Lewis, the famous Indian fighter of his time and the hero of the battle of Point Pleasant on the Ohio, whose statue is one of the proud group around Washington Monument in Richmond. On the same hill lie the remains of a Christian Choctaw who came from beyond the Father of Waters to study at Roanoke College. And this year an Indian who also came from beyond the Mississippi goes forth from the college "not in the war paint of the savage warrior, but clad in the armor of the Prince of Peace, a herald of the gospel of love...