Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...GriswoldFlorimel, a wandering bard, the victim of sundry mishaps, which are all set right in the last...
...this year are in a sense new men, and that they have been able, on account of the tardy spring, to play together and learn each other's ways during one short week only, one is inclined to think that the men are working in the right direction, and that they did as well as could be expected on Saturday. That they beat Dartmouth is sufficient criticism on their work...
...jail, where we find them when the curtain rises on the second act. The pirates behind the bars answer their lamenting betrothed in a song from Falka. The girls departing leave them to their fate. Follows a conversation between the pirates in the jail on the right of the stage, and Stubbs in stocks on the left. The captives following the directions of an oftconsulted manual, mesmerise the prison-bars and escape, singing a chorus from "Hermanie;" they leave the stage to Stubbs, who sings a gag song written for the occasion by Mr. Pepper, and after some very comic...
...Dame and Grew both looked fresh and in good condition as they stepped into the ring to decide the feather-weight sparring. Dame led with his left and Grew replied with a lively rally. Dame used his left and kept away from a good many of Grew's swinging rights. Grew hit several body blows. He kept up the same game in the second round and seemed intent on winding Dame. Dame replied to a swinging right with a straight right and left, both of which hit squarely. Grew forced the fighting and kept trying to land his right. Dame...
...third round was opened in a rattling style. Each man seemed bent on forcing the fighting, and each got in good blows. The punishment told on both, and the blows became weaker. Ashe planted a vicious right on Austin's chin which almost staggered him. Gathering his strength, Austin landed his right on Ashe's nose and drew blood. The round was very close, with the honor perhaps slightly in Ashe's favor...