Word: felling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...important. Night after night a part must be played and give the same effect every time. If the actor grows weary, he produces a weary audience. Mr. Macready, the famous actor, once said to Mrs. Warner that one of his great speeches, which used to make a great hit, fell flat. Was it an old story with the audience? The character has been detected by his son in the act of stealing. "When you spoke that speech ten years ago," replied Mrs. Warner, "you spoke like a man accused of theft by his son. You hardly knew what...
...October 7, a large Japanese force landed at the head of the peninsula of Port Arthur; a similar force had already landed just across the isthmus. These two forces advanced slowly down the peninsula and, on November 23, Port Arthur fell after forty hours fighting. The Japanese then marched along the coast and drove the Chinese beyond the the Siao River. Wei Hai Wei was invested by land and sea in January and finally all the fortifications fell into the hands of the Japanese. This practically opened the way to Pekin...
...next inning Holy Cross made two hits but got no runs. Harvard was more fortunate. Rand's hit fell safe, Stevenson advanced him by a clever sacrifice, and he scored on a very wild pitch...
Winslow was left on second in Harvard's half of the inning, and in the eighth the score was almost tied. Rand made a good single, stole second and took third as the baseman fell down and allowed the ball to go to centre field. In the ninth Whittemore made his remarkable double play, and Harvard came to the bat for the last time amid great excitement. The best they could do, however, was to get Burgess to first on balls and the game was over...
...Thorneycroft's the rough water bothered both crews and Cambridge had a shade the best of it, Oxford being barely a length ahead at this point. This was more than two-thirds of the distance, but the Cambridge partisans had not given up hope. From this point, however, Cambridge fell behind, and at Barnes's Bridge Oxford was three lengths ahead. From Barnes's Bridge to the ship Oxford maintained the lead, and won easily...