Word: interesting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...existed in the time of Grant's struggle for a third term (Forum, vol. 20, pp. 257 ff(, (z) as it exists today.- (2) There are no unusually important measures of foreign policy to be decided.- (3) There are no domestic concerns of vital interest which require completion...
...premium, or the insurance for the full amount of the policy being extended during a period shown therein, if no request is made, and no abatement from the death claim in case of death during the term of extended insurance The previlege of cash loans at five per cent. interest for amounts shown in the policy, at stated times during the accumulation period (10, 15, or 20 years), after the policy has been five years in force. Six options in settlement, under the Ordinary Life form of policy, and as any as are applicable under other forms...
...York Life's leadership is also shown in its greater promptness, completeness and frankness in report-making. Its annual report for 1895 was published January 11, 1896; and contained a complete schedule of its bonds and stocks, with interest rates and market values. Rea estate schedules are also published for distribution to all who ask for them. The report is made after methods understood by the public, upon the basis of business completed and money actually received and disbursed, without the old-time padding and cross-entries...
...play. The librettist has furnished a bright vigorous book. The plot has the merit of being substantial and connected, calling for plenty of lively situations and humorous complications, and giving the characters a wide range of acting, from serio-comic to pure burlesque, without departing from the central interest of the opera. Almost all the songs, dances, and bits of burlesque are closely allied to the development of the plot, which by the end of the first act becomes hopelessly intricate and tangled, only to unwind itself during the action of the second act and run smoothly at last...
BEGINNING tonight at the Castle Square Theatre, Washington Irving's charming legend of "Rip Van Winkle," set to Planquette's sympathetic music, which enhances the auditor's interest in this pathetic and humorous story of the Kaats-kills, will be introduced for one week only, with Mr. William Wolff as the village vagabond Rip, one of the most striking and realistic characters he has ever undertaken. All who have read Irving's story will be eager to hear the opera. The cast will be the same as for the first production the past winter, including the winsome children, whose singing...