Word: flashes
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...acting was more confident and sure. After the first scene of the third act, and at the end of the play, the appplause was long and enthusiastic, continuing after the last act until Mr. Robertson responded with a brief speech in front of the curtain. Then a flash light photograph was taken of Mr. Robertson and his company on the stage, and the knot of undergraduates' who remained gave the Harvard cheer for Mr. Robertson and Miss Elliott, and for Professor Baker...
...will be given at Brattle Hall this evening at 8 o'clock. The performance will not be open to the public. The cast follows: Touchstone, a goldsmith, J. D. Williams '03 Quicksilver, the idle prentice, J. P. Hoguet '04 Golding, the faithful prentice, H. C. DeLong '03 Sir Petronel Flash, S. H. Hall '03 Security, a usurer, F. E. Ames '03 Bramble, a lawyer, F. R. Fitzpatrick '03 Wolff and Holdfast, jailers, C. C. Lane '04, R. Magrane '03 Seagull, a sea captain, R. S. Wallace '04 Spendall and Scapethrift, his companions, W. G. Baer '04, J. F. Dever...
William Touchstone, a London goldsmith, has two daughters who are exactly the opposite in character. Girtred is ambitious to be a lady, while Mildred is contented with her station. Sir Petronel Flash, an adventurous knight without fortune, applies to Touchstone for the hand of Girtred in order to enrich himself by the sale of the land left the young woman by her grandmother. Mrs. Touchstone and Girtred favor the match and the father unwillingly consents to it. Touchstone has two apprentices as dissimilar in character as are his daughters. Quicksilver, the idle prentice, leaves his master to join Sir Flash...
...Kellogg Durland will deliver a lecture on "The Life of a Coal Mizer" at Association Hall, corner of Berkeley and Boylston streets, Boston, at 8 o'clock this evening. The lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides made from flash-light photographs of the interiors of coal mines. Mr. Durland, in addition to studies in economics and sociology, has spent some time in the coal fields as an actual miner. He is at present engaged in collecting testimony for the commission in the authracite region...
...circular was issued Saturday by Professor E. C. Pickering, in which he announces the first successes ever made in photographing the spectrum of a lightning flash. Comparison of the three negatives obtained at different times in the months of July and September shows the curious fact that the spectrum of lightning is not always the same. The spectrum of the flash closely resembles that of the new star, the Nova Persei. The apparatus was the same as is used in obtaining photographs of the spectra of stars and the success of the experiment, it is expected, will open...