Word: monk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...choir sang the hymnal "My faith looks up to Thee," by Monk; also anthems by Shelley and Attwood...
...work of Mr. Duncan in his biographical sketch, "The Conversion of Geoffrey Varaille," is praiseworthy particularly for the way in which the thread of the story of the monk's life is sustained and for ease and clearness of style...
...second article, "An Argument for Cremation" is a very powerful and thrilling story though certainly not an attractive one. A man is found apparently dead by some jolly monks, and in spite of the fact that the body still retains its warmth, they bury it at the abbey. Some time later the monks and their merry Abbot are disturbed in their carousals by noises issuing from the grave, and they find that the slab bas fallen from its place and the grave is empty. Later in the evening when the orgy is over, the Abbot on entering his room, finds...
...entertainment took place in the concert hall of the Metropolitan Opera House before a large audience. An original extravaganza in three acts, entitled "The Talisman; or, the Maid, the Monk and the Minstrel," was produced. The burlesque told the story of a marquis of the old regime, who sought to marry his daughter Marguerite to a certain Count Fleurdelis. The lady, however, loves a poor minstrel called Florimel. The minstrel, who is taken under the care of the Goddess of Truth, succeeds, with the aid of the Abbe Kakatoes, in setting at naught the designs of the marquis...
...features. Professor Jacob Mycillus goes by in a great car, seated at his old oaken desk and reading his ponderous tome as quietly and attentively as he did three hundred years ago; and Melancthon, with his robes about him, is expounding some knotty point of doctrine to the grave monk beside him. The end of the sixteenth century finds the gay court at its gayest. There are splendid cars with Ceres, Bacchus, Venus, sitting on them, while vineyard laborers, with grape-laden baskets, dance about them. Then comes Sileuns, reeling from his ass and surrounded by a fantastic bevy...