Word: london
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...scorer. Thousands of spectators witnessed the remarkable games, and watched the CRIMSON athletes win event after event with almost incredible rapidity. The committee in charge of the American contingent to the Olympic games were on hand as announced, and enlisted several of the journalists for the trip to London...
...Bartholomew Fair" was first produced at the Hope Theatre, London, in 1614, and quickly became one of the most popular pieces of the time. After the Restoration it was revived, and the part of Cokes was played by Nokes, the most celebrated comic actor...
...comedy presents a lively picture of London life three centuries ago. There is little plot but much action, centring in a typical Smithfield fair in London, where there is plenty of petty thieving, and much buying and selling of wares...
Cokes, a country squire, comes up to London to the fair, to get his marriage license, attended by Waspe, his testy guardian, who calls for the license at John Littlewit's. Mrs. Littlewit conceives a violent craving for roast pig, and Dame Purecraft, her mother, and Rabbi Zeal-of-the-Land Busy, both hypocritical Puritans, agree to escort her to the fair, where it may be obtained, although they protest loudly against the vanity of such shows. The Rabbi salves his conscience for going by promising to eat to the fall of the wicked and to "eat exceedingly." Overdo...
...Stuck was graduated from King's College, London, in 1883, and from the University of the South at Suwannee, Fla., in 1892. From 1894 to 1903 he was Dean of the Episcopal Cathedral at Dallas, Texas. Four years ago he was appointed to the archdeaconship of Alaska. His work there extends over the territory of the valley of the Yukon river and its tributaries, where he is constantly founding and visiting missions...