Word: flowers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Algernon Charles was opposed to this. He had been conferring with George Francis T. and with Miss Julia A. Moore, the "sweet singer of Michigan," and they were as one man against it. "The factitious fragile flower of a fruitful fancy blossoming in deep divine imaginings, unseen and for evermore beautiful, should not be choked out by the preposterous polyhedral polytechnic and pyrotechnic perorations and preparatory ponderosity of addle-pated patriarchs...
...your lips the flower...
...wear a penny flower in your coat, Lardy...
...Wednesday and Saturday. This evening, Salvini in "Ingomar." To-morrow, matinee at 1.30, Salvini ends his engagement here with "Othello," which no one who cares for splendid acting should miss seeing. Salvini's engagement has been a rare treat to theatre-goers. Next week, Kate Claxton in the "Snow Flower" until Friday. Friday, "Frou-Frou." Saturday, matinee and evening, "The Two Orphans...
...probable that but few persons are acquainted with the mechanical process by which verses are made. Yet the process is simple enough, and may be confidently attempted by any one possessing a fair amount of intelligence and a pocket dictionary, with the firm expectation of rivalling the flower (I might almost say the daisy) of Harvard poetry...