Word: flats
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...footer," commenced the usual rebellion and tried to trip up Sykes, who instantly collared, floored, and put his foot on the rebel, and kept it there, until Bill promised to abide by the rules of the school in general, and to submit to the application of the big flat ruler of the teacher in particular. But when the latter went for this instrument of authority, Bill went for the window, out of which he had got his head and shoulders, when down came the sash on his back, and held him fast. The teacher appreciated the advantage the situation conferred...
...education. To give an illustration of the practical working of this system, four students were clad in female attire. "One wore a fashionable poke bonnet and a scarlet dress with puffed sleeves, and smoked a very long and strong cigar; another was attired in modest white, wore a coquettish flat straw hat with blue ribbons, and talked in a deep bass voice; the third was clothed in the sober garb of a middle-aged matron, but had refused to sacrifice his mustache, and the last represented a prim and dignified spinster, but was betrayed by the vigor and pathos...
Found - A flat key. Owner can have the same at Drury...
Found - A flat key. Owner can have the same at Drury...
...last concert of the Symphony Orchestra last evening was an eminent success. The events of the programme were the concerto for piano in E flat, by Mr. Henschel, and the symphonic poem by Prof. Paine. The concerto was highly appreciated by the audience, the parts in the adagio carried by the violins being especially admired. Mr. Henschel's rendering of the final allegro movement added much to the interpretation of the number. The symphonic poem, "The Tempest," which was conducted by the composer, aroused in its strong contrasts all the fire and brilliancy and all the subdued feelings which...