Word: girls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...tree or bush or rambling brook in the neighborhood that he could not sketch while in his studio. His work was not the result of observation alone, but modelled much after the Dutch school. His early landscapes are of a reddish color, usually contain a gnarled oak, a girl and a boy, or some cattle, and are carefully worked out in detail...
...presented there are twenty-five horses and two hundred soldiers that participate in the realistic Sheridan's ride scene, and all the battle movements are gone through with ease and entire verisimilitude. The cast, too, is splendid. There could be no better type of the handsome Southern girl than Margaret Robinson, and the manly Union officer, who loves her and is beloved in turn, could be in no better hands than those of Henry Weaver. These lovers are separated by the shot fired at Fort Sumter and part "enemies." They meet during the conflict and are finally united after...
...College House.HOLLIS STREET THEATRE. - Beginning tonight, "The Girl I Left Behind Me' will be the attraction at the Hollis Street Theatre. It is seldom that so thrilling a play is seen on the stage, and yet it is absolutely free from claptrap and melodramatic effort. Those who saw it at the Columbia last year will remember the intense enthusiasm that is always aroused by the arrival of the cavalry to rescue the beleaguered party in the stockade, and how this feat was sccomplished without the dring of a gun. The attack of the Indians could be plainly heard...
...allowed but a few years under the influence of his mother, being early taught the use of arms; and on becoming of age at fifteen years he was expected to distinguish himself by some gallant deed at the head of his twelve Busuks. When a boy and girl were engaged each had to give a dowry and if the engagement should be broken inside of three years the one breaking the engagement lost the dowries...
...MERRYWEATHER."THE GAIETY GIRL" came, saw and conquered at the Hollis last Monday. She coquetted with the audience, flirted her skirts, poised her dainty toes on a level with the big chandelier, received huge baskets of roses in which she buried her English nose, bowed and smiled her acknowledgments and retired, only to be recalled again and again. The atmosphere was English, the people were English and everything was appreciated to the highest degree. That familiar and distressing form of English humor which is indicated by a series of the coarsest puns was entirely lacking, and in its place...