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...comedy in two acts entitled "Inbad in Trinidad." The scene of the first act is laid in the city square in Trinidad. Alonzo, a gaily dressed bullfighter, who has just discovered the treacherous plans of revolutionists, is being congratulated by the citizens. Bob Richardson, a seller of bombs, becomes jealous at Alonzo's success and at the same time falls in love with the bull-fighter's fiancee, Pepita. In the meanwhile Inbad, a sailor, having been disguised as Alonzo, wins the affections of Tina, a cigarette girl. The second act is laid on the harbor docks of the town...
...they march. They remain on the stage throughout the play, and in their choral odes express the popular feeling of the men of Argos in regard to the events portrayed there. Agamemnon soon returns from Troy, bringing in his train the Trojan captive, Cassandra, of whom Clytaemnestra is jealous. Despite the king's request to have the prisoner treated gently, the queen orders her roughly into the palace. Cassandra foresees her tragic fate, but is unable to persuade the men of Argos that she is being lured to death. In despair, she enters the gates of the palace, which later...
...technical features of various events, but in the prevailing spirit of sportsmanship as well. "Granted, the common love of out-of-door sports, the two countries differ in almost every particular. . . . Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Pennsylvania, Cornell, merely to speak the names in a single breath raises an atmosphere of jealous and aggressive rivalry. . . . Oxford, Cambridge -- there is an immediate suggestion of fifteenth century architecture, overgrown with ivy." In a word, English athletics have none of that bitterness too often seen here when some disputed point of small importance is held up to public view for weeks by the daily press...
...poet and his achievements. On the contrary, as the author himself admits, or rather boasts, in his introductory remarks, his criticism is pervaded with his love for the poet's personality. The book is at once an out-pouring of devotion, almost amounting to worship, and a jealous defense of the idol against all outside disapproval...
Since 1624 many colonies had sprung up in America and Virginia was jealous of all south of New England, especially of Maryland. The population had nearly doubled in eighteen years and negro slaves also increased greatly in numbers...