Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was a $225,000 fire at Havre de Grace, Md., yesterday afternoon...
FLYING RINGS.The next event was the flying rings, for which there were three entries - J. B. Walker, '84 (black); G. B. Morison, '83 (white), and T. C. Bachelder, '83 (blue). The feats of Bachelder were noted particularly for their strength, while Morison, especially in his front flyaway, excelled in grace. Walker's socket motions were good. The whole exhibition was watched with great interest and was an excellent display throughout. Bachelder's back turn-over was an especially difficult feat and well executed. The event was won by Bachelder...
...horizontal bar were, A. C. Denniston, '83; J. C. Faulkner, '86; F. B. Fay, '83; G. B. Morison, '83. Denniston did remarkably well, though suffering from a lame ankle, and his movements were throughout excellent exhibitions of strength. The movement of all the contestants were remarked for their grace, those of Faulkner especially winning applause. Faulkner won laurels by executing the giant swing and then turning and doing it backwards several times. He was awarded...
...marching host in the background, who wend their stately way along the boards with a polka-mazurka step, each man puffing his chest with martial ardor, and grinning as his Darwinian ancestors did when skipping playfully among the tree-tops. The ease of their postures, the classic, statuesque grace of their attitudes, with head on one side, mouth stretched from ear to ear, and arms akimbo, never fail and never can fail to elicit deafening plaudits from the house...
...Mayors Hall, Ely, Grace, Cooper and Wickham, General Grant, Ex-Senator Conkling, William H. Vanderbilt and Jay Gould have been summoned as a coroner's jury in the case of Geo. Mahan, who killed a fellow-patient in the Bellevue Hospital, New York, last Sunday...