Word: raiments
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sensation seldom equalled in the regular season. The coolness of the Tremont is something unprecedented, the decorations unequalled, and the special features with which the management regales its patrons have all proved very successful. In the lobbies, between the acts, a beautiful Egyptian girl, Frommia, clad in the richest raiment of the East, dispenses from an Oriental booth Egyptian cigarettes to gentlemen; and in another part of the foyer, piano and vocal concerts are given at each intermission, making the broad halls a charming promenade...
...love with a customer. The two girls give their lovers two rings, which the lovers swear never to part with, and the same evening present them to two grand ladies at a ball, who are no other than their sweethearts of the morning, now clad in their legitimate raiment. The two gentlemen, in the middle of the night, play at burglars, and bind the squire in his chair and rob him. Dorothy, disguised in male attire, challenges her lover to fight a duel, and, the challenge being accepted, displays arrant cowardice, thus making the denouement and inevitable explanations easy...
...Appleton chapel last evening, taking as his text John vii, 24 26, where Christ gives his testimony for John the Baptist and tells the people that John was not the reed shaken before the was not the reed shaken before the wind, nor the man clothed in soft raiment, but the prophet. These three symbols are types of characters that are before us to choose front; the reed is the man in college or in public life who is blown hither and thither by every breeze and unable to stand firm against temptation; the man in soft raiment...