Word: guardian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...opinion of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts addressed to the House of Representatives in 1843. This opinion states that a student must establish a legal domicile in the town where he wishes to vote, and as his domicile can be presumed to be that of his parent or guardian, the burden of proof rests upon him to establish a change of domicile, if his parent or guardian reside in some other locality than that in which he wishes to vote. This change of domicile can be established by a student working his way through college independently of his parents...
Cokes, a country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo...
...Jasper and Luce, but is unsuccessful in this episode, as Jasper succeeds in winning Luce. Thwarted on all sides, he is sent to Moldavia, where the Sultan's daughter, Pompiona, is made to fall in love with him. He escapes from this love-match, however, by means of his guardian angel, whom he calls Susan; but he is finally slain by the orders of the citizen, in order to end the play...
...play proper is divided into three acts. An elderly noble, Albert, is in charge of a beautiful ward, Agathe, with whom he is in love. Agathe, however, shows affection not for her guardian, but for Eraste, a young man whom she has met by chance. Anxious to be rid of her guardian's control. Agathe pretends to be mad. She appears first as a musician, then as an old woman, and finally as a soldier. Crispin, valet to Eraste, impersonating a physician, takes charge of Agathe who, in her impersonation of a soldier, has become violent toward Albert. Crispin claims...
...dispose of the stock of the mine. He succeeds in interesting Caleb Sweet, leading citizen of the village, and the three selectmen. But by flirtation with Priscilla Sweet, reported by Nehemiah Obadiah Brown, he incurs the jealousy of his wife, Belle Equestria. At this point Nehemiah Brown's guardian, Ikey Ikklehopper, sues for the hand of Lucretia Smart, a gay grass widow, and his advances are received to the point of accepting his ring, but no further, for Lucretia's heart is set on Goodbert Swift, a New York lawyer at the village tavern. In the interval, Belle Equestria...