Word: husband
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Chicago University has recently received a bequest of $250,000 from Mrs. Joseph Reynolds, in compliance with the wishes of her late husband. It is also reported that the estate of William B. Ogden will net $500,000 to the university, as his heirs are practically united in designating the university as the best beneficiary of the still undistributed sum left by him for philanthropic purposes...
...literary character. And yet a critic's view is very different from that of a moralist. Byron's power was in his personality. He was born into an evil inheritance. His father was Mad Jack of the Guards. His mother, a lioness of a woman, was deserted by her husband, and left with her "lame brat." She was the worst kind of woman to bring up such a child. He succeeded his father as Lord Byron in his eleventh year. In 1803 he met the Mary of his poems, whose marriage with another later saddened his life but inspired...
...Shaw of Pittsburg, Pa., has given $30,000 to the trustees of the Peabody Museum to found a chair of archaeology in memory of her husband...
...Unrepentant" is a psychical study of much force. There is a startling vividness and originality of touch in the descriptions of the death-bed conversation of a woman "who deserted husband and child to follow a lover," and who acknowledged that it was almost divine to sin as she did, "not with a mean desire to cheat the devil or God, but freely anxious to have what she sinned for and not to repine." Certainly the theme is one which we seldom see elaborated...
...Inartistic Hero," in a certain quaintness of conception and peculiarity of style, reminds us of its author's production in the last number of the Advocate, "Husband versus Poet." The idea of the tale is original and the effect is, on the whole, good, - although marred in places by incoherence of diction...