Word: misses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Awfully cold. To church to hear Beecher! He is a great man, but a little off color. Walked home with Miss S. Mighty fine girl! Left for Boston by night train. Had rather dull journey. Was squeezed into a seat with a fat woman as far as New Haven. How much pleasanter and nobler life would be if all monstrosities were kept out of sight! Read "Endymion" nearly half through, and think it splendid. So racy and refined! How much nicer it is to read of lords, &c., than the common herd! I hate snobs...
BOSTON THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinee, Saturday at 2. Alfred Cellier's opera, founded on Mr. Longfellow's "Masque of Pandora," will be produced until further notice. The opera seems destined to be a fairly successful one : it has been carefully prepared, and is very well set. Miss Blanche Roosevelt, who was so charming in the "Pirates," last year, sings in the principal role, Pandora...
GLOBE THEATRE. - 7.45 P.M.; Matinees, Wednesday and Saturday. This evening, Salvini in "Ingomar." To-morrow, matinee at 1.30, Salvini ends his engagement here with "Othello," which no one who cares for splendid acting should miss seeing. Salvini's engagement has been a rare treat to theatre-goers. Next week, Kate Claxton in the "Snow Flower" until Friday. Friday, "Frou-Frou." Saturday, matinee and evening, "The Two Orphans...
Room in Ecstasy Hall. A free-lunch counter furnished with cigars and wine; four or five girls and two or three men in easy-chairs, smoking and drinking; MISS CARBUNCLE, Instructress, at a desk...
...MISS CARBUNCLE. Before beginning this course, ladies and gentlemen, I should like to say, that I hope you have not forgotten what little Arabic and Hebrew you knew when you came here. Therefore I shall have no hesitation in referring...