Word: ishmael
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Dates: during 1886-1886
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...love. Miss Mitchell seems to think that piquancy is given to her conversation by a slight rising inflection at the end of every sentence, but such a thing becomes only exasperating when repeated a number of times. There is in the cast a character by the name of Ishmael Ackbar, a Spanish Gypsy. For a Spaniard to be called Ishmael Ackbar is something a little too ridiculous. Ishmael is Hebrew, Ackbar, Turkish. Of course such a play as this could not exist without a murder in it. If it did not have one in fine style, the audience might think...