Word: girls
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...only was the entrance of many of these students boisterous in the extreme, but the disheveled appearance, and language of one or two at least was such as to make a young girl at my side shrink in disgust. During the whole performance not only was a constant noise kept up, but the actors and actresses were guyed and annoyed, often most insultingly, and had it not been for the courage of the chief actress, who finally refused to proceed with her part until quiet had been restored, the performance might have ended in dire confusion...
...light of these resemblances some of us may think the characters much the same, only different editions of the same girl. But they are poignantly different. Viola was a tender, delicate creature, almost sentimental. Rosalind also had some sentiment, but with it was combined so much humor that it was rather lost sight of. She laughed on every occasion, perhaps because she was conscious of being the cause of so much laughter in others. Beatrice had little sentiment; just enough for a great lady, of which she is Shakspere's best type. In this she differed from Viola and Rosalind...
...their greatest pieces at the Hollis,-the comedy, "Liberty Hall," by R. C. Car-ton. This play has enjoyed a protracted run in England and was given for 105 nights in New York with immense success. It is a dainty love story charmingly told. A young English girl loses her father and discovers that her home has been inherited by a young male relative to whom she is a stranger. She leaves home and hides her poverty in obscurity. She is followed by the new owner of her home, who wins her without disclosing his identity. The heroine is enacted...
...writer of our own day, Mr. Browning. Style is that expression of a just thought in prose, or of a thought infused with imaginative passion in poetry, which is precisely adequate-neither more nor less. I have often thought that a happy image of it is an Italian girl with a jar of water on her head. The necessity of an exact balance gives dignity and something which may almost be called repose, to every motion. If the jar be of classical outline, as it often is, our pleasure is heightened. So in the matter of expression. The first requisite...
...young Scotch girl recently won the honors against 1,600 men students at the University of London...