Word: fronts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although the little hall used for the occasion, somewhat sarcastically called the "Theatre Royal," has a stage only eighteen feet square, and although the audience could not but feel oppressed in the extremely small auditorium, yet the presentation proved very successful and impressive. In front of the small stage and three feet lower down, was a space for the evolutions of the chorus, and still further towards the audience sat the band. The tragedy was shortened, being divided into a prologue and three acts, for each of which there was a separate scene. On the stage were represented in turn...
...four-story brick, containing about 150 rooms and 250 girls. A wild panic ensued among the girls. Some rushed from their rooms in their night clothes, others shrieked and fainted, while a few were badly bruised by falling down stairs. Many of the girls were taken safely down the front stairs, but a few were driven back to the upper landings owing to the flames blocking up the passage. Several of the terrified young ladies were badly burned, while a dozen or more were carried down the ladders, unconscious from smoke. All the victims suffered from exposure to the cold...
...last N. Y. Clipper has a picture of Dixie on its front page. We regret that it does not do him justice...
Sixteen silk hats were observed on the sidewalk in front of Sawin's express office yesterday afternoon; also about seventy-five trunks...
...necessary to rub our eyes to appreciate the reality of dormitory, yard and sanctum. The loneliness, mud, and utter confusion reigning in these places respectively were evidences, alas prima facie, that Christmas vacation has wrought changes only in ourselves. With firmer hearts, therefore, let us come squarely to the front, meet and master our foes, and gain the satisfaction of well earned rewards...