Word: lively
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...presentation of the comedy occupies about an hour. It treats of two poor artists, Pepe and Pepito. Don Manuel returns from Cuba very wealthy, and takes Pepe as his nephew to live with him in his magnificent house. It develops later that Pepito is the real nephew, and just as Pepe and Consuelo, his wife, think they must leave Don Manuel, Pepito arrives and the wealthy uncle keeps them all as his own family. The humor of the play revolves about old Don Cleto, Pepe's father, who uses wrong words, mispronounces, and disputes himself, and is always entangled...
...needs the restraining influence which is obtained in no other way than in a firm faith in a divine power. It was this powerful faith which led Christians to die as martyrs, and thus show themselves worthy of the great cause for which they died. Men who live for themselves live small lives, as history has often shown. To be effective and happy a man must have faith in himself, faith in mankind, faith in his government, and faith...
Governor Montague said that the most important feature of the present question in the South was the failure of educated young men to return to live in the South. From Virginia, 38 per cent. of the native-born whites are now living in other states of the Union. The country, however, is progressing, and the demands upon trained men are becoming more and more exacting...
...lecture yesterday, M. d'Avenel said that the history of salaries is bound up with the struggles of four-fifths of any nation, who have sold their lives to be able to live. In the Middle Ages, where feudalism was everywhere present, nothing was paid for in money, but in labor. People engaged themselves in exchange for commodities; but such contracts soon became very odious, and every attempt was made to annul them. In consequence of the rising of values, debtors found it to their advantage to take back any land, renouncing the services which were the price paid therefor...
...apartments, in order to get her to accept Humphrey. The lovers change places, and Jasper makes his escape as his own ghost. When Venturewell finds that his daughter has not been spirited away by magic, he is so relieved that he forgives them both on the spot, and all "live happily ever after" except Ralph. The "Knight of the Burning Pestle" is furnished by the citizen with surprising battles and adventures, excluding his summary transportation to Moldavia, where the Sultan's daughter is compelled to fall in love with him. With the aid of Susan, his Dulcinea del Toboso...