Word: misses
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Miss Emilie Leste, of Montreal, has sued Alphonso Keroack, the wealthy manufacturer, for breach of promise, with damages...
...Globe next Monday evening, the Ideal Company will present "Patience" to their many Boston admirers, who will naturellement crowd the house to laugh at Barnabee's same old "faces," applaud Tom Carl's same old affectations, and pronounce "simply exquisite" Miss Stone's far from exquisite voice. The chorus will go through their same old by-plays, and all the Boston papers will continue to declare it the best comic opera company in the world...
...rather an unromantic chap, and only know about these things from what I have heard on occasions like the one described above, when a last glass had caused the friend on my right to discover to me the intricacies of a prolonged flirtation of half an hour with Miss L. the evening before, and I wondered then, as I always do, that it takes three times as long to describe a flirtation with a woman as the flirtation itself lasts; in fact, I know one man who has been a whole year telling me about a woman whom he never...
Young Salvini, not Fred. Paulding, has been engaged to play the heroes to Miss Margaret Mather's heroines, under Manager Hill...
...mistress with the greatest of ease. The window could clearly be high enough to warrant Romeo's employment of "cords made like a tackled stair" - that is to say, a rope ladder - to reach it. There is truth, however, in the statement that Irving's several attempts to reach Miss Terry's hand, "which is just out of reach, and his desperate clutches and frantic gestures, approach within a dangerous distance of the ridiculous...