Word: grandes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have been there for two or three years that the wind, if there is any, nearly always goes down by sunset. No race has yet been postponed there over the day appointed. New London also offers a chance for yacht clubs to meet and see the race, - a capital grand stand, and good look-out points along either shore...
That which once was madly grand...
...dozen undergraduates from Columbia and not one dozen from Harvard were in attendance. The whole number of people attracted from out of town was less than 200, and the New Londoners themselves very generally ignored the show. Exactly 162 tickets were sold to the grand stand, which was constructed at a cost of $1,200, and had a seating capacity for 3,000 people. The direct money loss of the managers is known to have exceeded $500, and is believed by them to have been nearer $800. Even had the attendance of spectators been large enough to make the receipts...
...finished in the Grecian style of architecture. Within were three apartments, two bedrooms and a parlor, in which latter room we did our cooking. I had purchased a gas-stove in San Francisco. This room had two windows, and between was a place just large enough for my Chickering grand, - a pleasant surprise from papa upon our arrival. We had no neighbors within twelve miles. Our one servant was a converted Indian. Instead of scalping after the ordinary manner of his tribe, he was content to appropriate to his own use small articles of value, and carry them...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.30 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday, at 2. "Voyagers in Southern Seas; or, The Children of Captain Grant," continues to attract large audiences, and holds the boards until further notice. On Sunday, grand Concert: Levy and the Spanish Students...