Word: grand
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...German marking-machine proved a grand success in Pol. Econ. 2, and entitles the inventor to be ranked among the greatest philanthropists...
Sept. 25. - Law-pills are rolled. Memorial Hall opens its Architectural Exhibition and Grand Ethiopian Circus...
...Moonlight. "My love 's a little Fishermaid" (Song), by Berthold Tours. "Little darling, sleep again" (Cradle Song), by Arthur Sullivan. Coming (Song) and Shadow (Song), by George L. Osgood. Star, Rose, and Thorn (Song), by Richard Heard. The Rescued Colors (Song), by Campana. Idylle, by Rafael Joseffy. Pokcaha (Grand March), by F. Mnhkyca. L'Eclair (Cornet and Piano), Halevy...
PARK THEATRE. - Of Miss Emma Abbot's "Grand English Opera Company" little need be said. Miss Abbot herself does not justify much criticism either as a singer or an actress. Her voice has some pleasing notes in it, and it is smooth, but that is about all that can be said. Her acting is decidedly vivacious, but very crude. She gives the effect of a girl of seventeen who has just gone upon the stage. As Marguerite in "Faust" she fails almost completely. As Mignon she is a little more successful. In the support Mrs. Seguin easily leads...
...enjoyment of the pleasures which the present offers for our delectation, be oblivious of preparations for the unknown and boundless future. The rise of Sever, the coming of celestial John, the prospective conversion of our late rendezvous into ablutionary liquid, the completion of this grand palaestra, - all these events remind us that this too, too solid flesh* must die, decay, and pass into nothingness...