Word: peg
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...idea of ranging the nines as far as possible in order of excellence and constituting what reminds one of a spelling class contest, is a clever one. Under such an arrangement if any team retires after the series has begun, each of the others will simply move up a peg and the competition will continue as before. Moreover, the plan is so novel that it promises to prove an attraction in itself, and so help to make the series popular and increase its usefulness as a training school...
...catch at some hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful...
...Masks and Faces," written by Tom Taylor and Reade, of which Peg Woffington is the heroine. is one of the most delightful survivals of the drama of the olden time. This play gives a good idea of the life and bustle of the theatre stage...
Lecture. The Drama of Yesterday: "London Assurance," "Old Heads and Young Hearts," "The Hunchback," "Still Waters Run Deep," "Peg Woffington," "David Garrick," "Richelieu," "Society," "Caste," and other plays by Sheridan, Knowles, Boucicault, Tom Taylor, Bulwer, and Robertson. Mr. Copeland, Sever...
Lecture. The Drama of Yesterday: "London Assurance," "Old Heads and Young Hearts," "The Hunchback," "Still Waters Run Deep," "Peg Woffington," "David Garrick," "Richelieu," "Society," "Caste," and other plays by Sheridan, Knowles, Boucicault, Tom Taylor, Bulwer, and Robertson. Mr. Copeland, Sever...