Word: strength
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...wished for a moment it were to be given. But the "Comedy of Errors" as presented left no regreis. A peculiarly difficult play to act with just enough vigor to emphasize its broad comedy and yet not overdo its farce,--it was given with admirable balance and admirably restrained strength...
...play, offering less prominence to individual excellence than "As You Like It," showed the uniform strength of the company. Mr. Ben Greet and Mr. C. Rann Kennedy the two Dromios, showed unusual appreciation and restraint, avoiding the buffoonery so often substituted for the humor of their lines. A nice discrimination was noticeable between the impersonation of Antipholus the Ephesian and Antipholus of Syracuse. A real difference in attitude, the difference between native citizen and stranger, stood out clearly in both characters throughout the tangles of mistaken identity...
...Howe of Buffalo and Dr. Williams of Boston will be at the Hemenway Gymnasium at 3 o'clock this afternoon for the last time to test the eyes of any man who either has taken or intends to take Dr. Sargent's new strength test...
...Howe of Buffalo and Dr. Williams of Boston will be at the Hemenway Gymnasium at 3 o'clock this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon for the last times to test the eyes of any man who either has taken or intends to take, Dr. Sargent's new strength test...
...citizens of this country who are indifferent to politics, who shun public duties, who avoid the stress of elections, are the modern traitors, as dangerous and evil as the traitors of history. The country needs strong young men who will give richly of their money, their time and their strength. The dangers of a democracy are of little account when such men rally to the support of the nation: when corruption is brought to light, when wrong is punished. Mr. Guild closed his address by strongly affirming his faith in the people of this country, who are yearly growing better...