Word: hunchback
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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GLOBE THEATRE.- "Lagardere, or the Hunchback of Paris...
GLOBE THEATRE.- "Lagardere, or the Hunchback of Paris...
GLOBE THEATRE.- "Lagardere, or the Hunchback of Paris...
...Biard prize at Princeton of $100 is awarded to R. W. Mason. This gentleman, who has the misfortune to be a hunchback, and is not four feet in height, has succeded in capturing both First Junior Orator prize last commencement and now the First Biard prize for oratory, and he is, moreover, the first man in Princeton College who ever took both these prizes...
...misfortune and monstrosity rather than sin, we should not find it necessary to be so vehement in our condemnation of wrong doing, since we should not feel so much secret sympathy with it. Even now, who of us in his heart would not be a rake rather than a hunchback, a villain rather than a fool? In spite of all the moralists, we cannot admire desert or merit as much as the gifts of nature and fortune. There is nothing of which we are so proud as of a good family, a handsome face, a strong body, a ready...