Word: parvenues
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GLOBE THEATRE. - Rosina Vokes in "The Parvenu" and "The Tinted Venus...
...genial, social aspect about lawn tennis that has, no doubt, largely ministered to the growth of its popularity. It possesses no mysteries like the ancient and classic game whose name it has borrowed, and whose champions look down upon the intruder as rather a sorry sort of parvenu. A person who cannot be made to understand that the advance at a bound from "fifteen" to "thirty" is a perfectly natural numerical progression, that thirty is a matter of course leaps at once to forty, and that "deuce" is the parent of "vantage," must be singularly obtuse...
Plays personfied - Howard Carroll, "Fresh, the American;" Secretary Folger, "The Fool's Revenge;" Ben Butler, "Rip Van Winkle;" President Arthur, "The Parvenu;" Roscoe Conkling, "Richelieu;" Samuel J. Tilden, "Patience." - [Puck...
MUSEUM. - "The Parvenu." Every evening...
MUSEUM. - "The Parvenu." Every evening...