Word: flats
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
...adorned with richly-molded classic windows with consoles. Bronze doors in the centre of the portico will give access through a lofty marble portal to the main vestibule, paved with marble slabs, and whose walls will be decorated with marble pilasters, which will support a richly-paneled and ornamented flat ceiling. Marble doorways will lead thence to the left and right, to the president's room and to the offices. Directly ahead the vestibule will open into the main reading room, which will be on a some what higher level and occupy the entire space beneath the dome, which will...
Burnett, the 100 yards man, is Trainer Murphy's latest find, and he has, it is claimed, covered the distance in 10 seconds flat. He is a speedy runner and is being trained carefully. At the games next Saturday he will be pushed and be given a trial of speed with some of the best sprinters in the college world...
...that he will run the present intercollegiate champion, Cady of Yale, off his feet. Perkins gets a great start, and in the big hurdles leads Cady to the finish. Cady, Perkins and Hatch, the last another new comer in the event, are clearing the hurdles close to 16s. flat in the 120 yards...
...Episode of Chinese Flat," by C. A. Pierce '96, is the most readable article in the number and is interesting in spite of the fact that it is somewhat redolent of whiskey and tobacco juice. We are treated therein to a picture of the early West even more wild and woolly than that of Bret Harte...