Word: graces
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Chicago, and for quite a season in London. "Sowing the Wind" is said to be the best play Sydney Grundy has yet written. Its plot is simple and unhampered by extraneous incident. Its development is direct and logical and its treatment is original. The language is full of grace and precision and the author has handled a necessarily dangerous subject with delicacy and finesse, yet with distinctness and force that unite to give great strength. For this play Mr. Charles Frohman sent to the Columbia a specially selected company headed by J. H. Gilmour and Miss Mary Hampton...
Play will begin each day at 10 a. m., and at 2.30 p. m. The order of the matches, the courts and, as nearly as possible, the hour, will be posted at the grounds, and players will be expected to report at the time set. After ten minutes' grace, any player not appearing will have his name scratched out unless he has previously notified the referee...
...been ill since last Thanksgiving, but he had been able to be up and about until a week before his death, when he was seized with acute Bright's disease. His funeral was held at his home in Concord street, the Rev. F. E. Emrich pastor of the Grace Congregational church officiating...
...programme consisted of twelve numbers, representing the different exercises used in Dr. Sargent's school and a game of battle-ball between the seniors and juniors. Throughout, the various movements were executed with great precision and grace. The order of exercises with the name of the leader in each is as follows...
...indomitable personality gave it pride and passion; his sensibility an nervous exaltation gave it a better gift still,- the gift of rendering with wonderful felicity the magical charm of nature. The forest solitude, the bubbling spring, the wild flowers, are everywhere in romance. They have a mysterious life and grace there; they are Nature's own children, and utter her secret in a way which makes them something quite different from the woods, waters, and plants of Greek and Latin poetry. Now of this delicate a mistress, that it seems impossible to believe the power did not come into romance...