Word: forth
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Ralegh in Guiana, the play to be given in Sanders Theatre, on March 22, was written by Professor Wendell, for private performance in Boston. The play endeavors to set forth, somewhat in the manner of an Elizabethan chronicle history, the events which led to the failure of Sir Walter Ralegh's final effort to secure for England the possession of the country now called Venezuela. These are chiefly recorded in Ralegh's "Discovery of Guiana," and in his "Apology...
...effect of flowers raining from the branches-carrying out somewhat the idea of a "flower carnival"- would be very attractive from the point of view of the spectator. This proposal is put forth merely tentatively, as a means of helping along the discussion...
...than a disorderly "scrap." It is a form of fighting more characteristic of a scuffle of "thugs" in a barroom than of an assembly of students about to receive the Bachelor of Arts degree from the first centre of learning in America. Not a single manly quality is called forth. No premium is set on courage, strength, or endurance. On the contrary, the most noticeable feature of the whole affair is often some underhand slugging, "pasting" a man, as it is called. The remark is not unfrequently made by men that they are going...
Sing Alleluia Forth, Buck...
...other world. Thus female cloth-beating came from a she-demon who beat the souls of the dead; the art of war was learned from the rebel spirits. Among many primitive peoples, all methods of transportation were supposed to be taken from restless shades who travelled back and forth from one world to the other...