Word: opera-glass
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Died. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger, 70, theatre owner, manager, producer; at Manhattan; after a long illness. Beginning as an opera-glass boy in Cleveland, he became a protege of the late great Mark Hanna. In partnership with Marc Klaw he organized chaotic theater bookings with a clearing house system, established a syndicate of nearly 700 theatres. Immediately after his death a dispute arose over his $75,000,000 estate between onetime New York Supreme Court Justice Mitchell Louis Erlanger, his brother, and Mrs. Charlotte Fiscal Erlanger. Mrs. Erlanger claimed to be the common law widow, hired shrewd Lawyer Max D. Steuer...
...Kijk" is the Dutch for look. "Kijkers" is also the Dutch pet name for eyes, so that, if we tell a pretty girl that she has beautiful eyes, the Dutch would call them: "Mooie kijkers." To make the word seem still more useful, the Dutch also have kijkcr mean opera-glass or telescope and, if the Dutch had speakeasies (which they haven't and thank goodness have no need of) the peephole in the entrance door would be called, like Mr. Rockefeller's retreat, a ''kijkuit." EMILE W. VOUTE...
...Chandler, says Col. T. W. Higginson, an important work which must be carried on by the separate efforts of many persons who need not be experts in astronomy or possessors of large telescopes. Many observations are indeed needed which can best be made with an opera-glass or field-glass, or even with the naked eye. Professional observers would no doubt make these observations better than others, but such observers can rarely find time to make them; whereas useful contributions can be made by unskilled persons, provided that they are capable of identifying a star with accuracy. These observations relate...
...Miss, that the leading characteristic of the student is conceit. I grant it. But if you have ever taken an opera-glass into Memorial Hall gallery, do not make the accusation again. When a man becomes accustomed to being watched while at his meals, he is soon ready to believe that every glass is levelled...
...think I shall go to Memorial, and go with my opera-glass...