Word: popular
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Hamlet is the most popular of all of Shakespeare's plays, and managers are always sure of filling their theatres when they offer it for presentation. This is not wonderful, for the work is a melodrama pure and simple. It is a "tragedy of blood," and is a play in which action is the predominant feature. The plots and conspiracies; the play within a play; Hamlet's journey to England and return; the madness of Orphelia; all are full of action, and form a potent attraction for the popular mind. Throughout the play there is a bleak, cold humor, which...
...this concert will be the most interesting one he has yet given here, and he will have the assistance of a carefully selected orchestra under the direction of Mr. Emil Mollenhrur, also M. Lachaume, the favorite pianist, and Miss Elizabeth C. Hamlin, one of Boston's best known sopranos. Popular prices will be charged and seats can now be obtained at the box office...
Although the interest which attached to the eclipse of the moon last night was a popular rather than a scientific one, yet arrangements for observations were made at the Observatory in the hope that some data of importance might be gathered, possibly the appearance of a satellite or other phenomena. As it was, the sky was so clouded that only a few glimpses of the eclipse in its early stages were gained and from these nothing of any importance was learned...
...compared the past record of the Senate, in which almost every president and all our greatest statesmen have at sometime sat, with that of the governors of our states chosen by popular vote. The United States Senate for the past 100 years has been the best seond chamber on the earth. His manner and delivery created a very favorable impression...
...courses in Music which were begun this year at Yale under the charge of Professor Parker have proved very successful and popular...