Word: suitors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...loss of the house in which he has live all his life, nor the assault on his daughter, Hannah, by the brute Henry With row, who is going to foreclose the mortgage, shake him from his trust. When he believes Jimmy Caesar, the neighbor hood coward and a rejected suitor of Hannah, to have killed Withrow, his only feeling is one of sorrow that revenge has been taken in defiance of the clear precept, "Love thine enemies----" Even his brother's failure to post in time a letter containing money for the mortgage leaves him with no sense of bitterness...
...becomes Baron Otford and Lucy Pryor Madame Lachesnais. Of course, when the play opens in 1805, the Baron's son finds Madame's daughter living in a romantic street called Pomander Walk, and falls violently in love with her (Act 1). But when Marjolaine's mother hears who the suitor is she says "no daughter of mine" etc., and John Sayle, Jr., has to do his courting in disguise (Act II). Thanks to an obliging old minister and the romantic surroundings the course of true love is smoothed and when the curtain falls the minister has four weddings instead...
...Crystal Gazer" comes up to this standard; it has possibly more plot than the average; one can actually keep it in sight except at two points--one in the first act, when Ozab recommends the wrong suitor, and the other his too sudden unmasking at the end. The characters are sufficiently well conceived, although the figure of the social aspirant has been overdone of late; and the actors fit the parts--or rather the parts the actors better than is often the case. Mr. Savery may then be congratulated. The music is more than gay; it is melodious and skilfully...
...this greatly emphasized the respect and growing reverence in which he was held as time went on. The gentleness and kindly courtesy of his nature won for him the tender regard and affection of all who came in contact with him, and I never heard of the defeated suitor, or the disappointed advocate, or of anybody else who cherished any ill-feeling against him. The dignity of the Court has been well sustained by Chief Justice Fuller, and he died beloved and regretted by his colleagues, by the profession, and the nation. He leaves behind him a most honorable...