Word: powerful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...business life. The failure of so many college educated men in business may be attributed to this foolish pride of age, this refusal to do what must be learned by all, young and old, who intend to make a business career successful. In trade, as in the professions, no power is stronger than that of a well educated...
Lady Agnes, the fory horse-power behind the throne; Royal Charlie's patrician mash. Pray for him, C. H. Minot...
...Dong" song, given behind the scenes, at the beginning of the second act. The solos of Baldwin and of Carroll were effectively sung, and enjoyed by all. The strong part of the play, however, lay in the acting of Cushing, Hearst, and Swinscoe. These three gentlemen have an uncommon power of producing comic effect. Their superiority to the other performers was partly due to a careful avoidance, on their part, of all meaningless gesticulation. Swinscoe and Hearst immediately won the favor of the audience by their irresistible humor, and acrobatic movements. Cushing's ballet, in itself a work...
...faint conception may be reached of the scene that invariably follows the close of a game on either Jarvis or Holmes. No sooner is the last man put out, or the winning run scored than the cream of Cambridge muckerdom rises, and sweeps over the barriers with the resistless power of a tidal wave, overwhelming players and spectators alike in the mad rush. Such is the state of affairs. There is a remedy. At every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired to keep the non-paying spectators from encroaching upon the field. This they successfully accomplish during...
...living has greatly increased. The reports of the Iron and Steel Association corroborate this. And yet we are told that the laborer in America is infinitely better off than in Europe. To be sure money wages are higher, but it is not the amount of money, but the purchasing power of that money that is of interest to the laborer. The reason that the condition of the European laborer is worse than that of the American, is because his standard of living is so much lower. When he receives large wages he spends his money in luxuries, champagne for himself...