Word: ophelia
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...name is Ophelia, if anyone wants to know. She is a Great Dane. With this the factual matter available about Ophelia, that can be printed, ends. Saturday's playful exposition of a mood, arranged, it is to be supposed, by one or those who love football, the spectacle, ought likewise to end--if he is at all psycho-receptive,--the appearances of Ophelia. The appearance of a valued member of the Harvard staff putting on the dog in a public place, when it is still a month to his annual act at the Yale rally, is not alone an anachronism...
...famed Painter Watts. He divorced her when she had borne two children to Charles Wardell whom she later married. After that Ellen Terry went into retirement whence she was rescued by Charles Reade. From this time, her stage career grew to its zenith. Oscar Wilde reviewed her performance as Ophelia and was inspired to speak of "in finite powers of pathos . . . her imaginative and creative faculty. . . ." and of the whole as "a masterpiece of good acting...
...environment which, if taken away, destroys the greatness of the play. For instance. 'Romeo and Juliet' requires the romance-breathing Italian atmosphere, while the more blatant, boisterous plays would not be out of place in any country but England. This we found to be the case with 'Hamlet'. Ophelia would lose her charm in modern dress. And then, a change of costume is not needed to make Shakespeare modern. His thought and his humility will always be ultra-modern...
...Ophelia Harrison was visited last May by a hooded company. Her way of living was not liked. They took her away in an automobile, stripped her, beat her until her body was livid with stripes, left her to walk home-six miles...
...same day that the President approved the Italian debt-funding agreement, he entertained at luncheon in the state dining room of the White House (amid a profusion of Ophelia roses) M. Titulesco, Rumanian Minister to London; Prince Bibesco, Rumanian Minister at Washington; and other members of the Rumanian Mission come to make a debt-funding agreement on behalf of their country...