Word: gorgeous
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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About every Saturday afternoon a small band of men, presumably students, furnish amusement for the public by walking down Washington street wearing those hideous things called mortar-boards. They cause more comment than our Chinese professor in his gorgeous holiday attire. We wish that for the sake of the good name of Harvard they would label themselves, so that even the mistaken few would not think they came from Cambridge...
...just come from Smith, the tailor's, and I sank into my comfortable easy-chair - the only chair which I never offer to a stranger - with a mingled sensation of relief and anxiety. To be sure, I had looked over a large number of stuffs, gorgeous, "prononce," "tony," and commonplace, with fair success. I flattered myself that my selection - influenced, I will confess, by the judicious taste of the salesman - would be approved by my friends as correct and even "tough," though not too marked. But nevertheless, while colors, shades, mixed goods, plain goods, and Scotch goods were dismissed from...
...timid knock at the door. "Shades of U. 5!" exclaimed the Lamprey, "I would n't have anybody catch me reading these!" as he dexterously concealed the papers before him in the sleeve of his dress coat. The door moaned on its hinges, and in glided the Ibex in gorgeous new shoulder braces...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. This week and next, the Kiralfy Brothers' "Enchantment," with its gorgeous theatrical effects, will be given. January 3, Salvini for two weeks (eight performances). First week, "Othello," Monday and Saturday; "Hamlet," Wednesday; "La Morte Civile," Friday. "French Flats" on off nights...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday at 2. To-night and to-morrow are the last opportunities of seeing the gorgeous spectacle, "Around the World in Eighty Days," as presented by the Kiralfy Brothers' Combination. It would be hard to surpass the elaborate scenic effects which are produced in this play, while the performances of the "flying fairy," and of the ballet, are equally remarkable. On Monday, 18th, "Two Nights in Rome," with Maud Granger as the heroine, and a good support. Robson and Crane are announced for the 25th. This theatre has been made perhaps the most...