Word: plot
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mated and Pickwickian, and consequently are drawn into all sorts of entanglements and paradoxical complications, while the court ship of the fourth forms an agreeable and pleasing contrast by the good sense, independent thought and true feeling which make the friendship of this pair finally mature into love. The plot is simple and perspicuous and does not require a detailed analysis, but it is handled in a witty and clever manner, and there is not a dull line in the whole comedy. It is a play of unquestionable artistic merit and a striking refutation of the charge of heaviness...
...play is in two acts, the first laid in and about a summer hotel in Tacoma, Washington, the second in the garden of the Marquis Hari Kari, the Japanese governor of Nagasaki. The plot centres about the endeavors of a young collegian named Wigglesworth to earn an honest living, and his infatuation with May Lifter, the daughter of Thomas Lawson Lifter, a Chicago magnate. His college career is cut short by the villainy of an uncle who robbed him of his money, and he goes west to seek his fortune in Tacoma, where Thomas Lawson Lifter with his two daughters...
...plot of "Das Stiftungsfest" hinges on the celebration at the time of the anniversary of the formation of a "Sangerbund" in a small German town. Dr. Scheffler is greatly interested in this celebration, but his wife, Bertha, remembering his condition after the celebration of the previous year, does all she can to prevent him from attending. This leads to a quarrel, and she leaves the house to live with her uncle, Bolzau, whose home is in the suburbs. Meanwhile Scheffler's friend Hartwig, who is an intolerable talker, appears with his friend Dr. Steinkirch, for whom he wishes Scheffler...
This play, first printed in 1638, is representative of the English domestic drama. There is no record of its ever having been given before in this country. The plot turns upon the quackeries and impostures of a professed fortune-teller...
...object of the new Medical School to have affiliated hospitals nearby, and several institutions, to which the Corporation has made offers of adjacent parts of the large plot of land belonging to the University, have accepted. The Good Samaritan Hospital, situated nearby, on the corner of Francis and Binney streets, is one of these affiliated hospitals. The Children's Hospital will be erected to the west of the Medical School, and the Infants' Hospital, in memory of Thomas Morgan Rotch '91, will also be built on part of the Medical School property. Preliminary sketches and plans for both these buildings...