Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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After describing the nature of the Arabic language and its system, Dr. Torrey went on to give an account of the rise of its poetry. Among the peculiarities of Arabic poetry is a law which requires writers to begin all kinds of poems with praise of his sweetheart. Arabian histories are very tiresome, for every writer begins his history with the beginning of the world. The language is rich in fiction and the "Thousand and One Nights" is the greatest story book in the world...
...Sweetheart, Powell...
...acknowledge the receipt at this office of "Forbes of Harvard," a sketch by Elbert Hubbard. It is a vivid story of college life in the early fifties told by a series of letters that are supposed to have passed between Mr. Arthur R. Forbes and his mother, sweetheart and chum. Incidentally others take a hand in the correspondence. The story is replete with the play of fancy, wit and epigram, and enough philosophy to give it ballast...
...poet, it seems, has left home because he has been rejected by his sweetheart, Lithia Waters, and is wandering in search of an aesthetic pool in which to drown himself...
...Glees were all well rendered; the solo in "Sweetheart, My Own Sweetheart" by S. E. Marvin was sung in good taste, and "I'm from Boston", solo by S. H. Farwell, was especially pleasing. It is needless to say that the singing of J. A. Wider in "The Debutante" was as capital and inimitable as ever, and as usual took with the audience. His singing is one great attractive feature of the club and this song showed him decidedly at his best. He fills admirably the position which Jack Wendell held and the enthusiastic applause he received was well merited...