Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Hall in January next. At this meeting it was proposed, as was the case last year, to pit the best amateur boxers to be found in New England in the various classes against a team selected by Harry Cornish of the Chicago Athletic Association. These tournaments have been very popular and successful in the past...
...girls. Carmen, declared the assailant, is ordered to prison. She fascinates the luckless brigadier, Jose, until he connives at her escape, and is himself placed under arrest for it. Carmen returns to her wandering gipsy life, and tempts Jose to desert. Carmen's love grows cold. Escamillo, the popular toreador, woos her. Carmen is faithless. She goes with Escamillo to the bull fight at Seville, Jose pursues her and stabs her to the heart. The scene of the opera is Spain, about...
...ancient origin, there is nothing which brings us so closely in contact with the everyday life of the Greeks as these grave monuments. They also show us the artistic spirit of the ancients, in showing us the ideals of the best masters as established in the popular mind...
...Champagne and set up her court at Trois. She gave great encouragement to poetry and developed a school in the north of France whose ideals and forms were essentially those of the troubadors of Provence. From Trois came the poet Chretien, whose works, written with much skill, became universally popular. Through them he gave expression in extenso to the social ideals of the court of Marie, where women were the leaders and moulders of society. He elaborated the theory of courtly love and love's utter obedience, which had been originally developed in Provence, and with his contemporaries of note...
Under the Red Flag is the title of Mr. Edward King's latest story. Henry T. Coates, the publisher, has given the book an attractive dressing and it will be popular. It is an account of the adventures of three American boys during the Paris Commune...