Word: tells
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...matinee performance to be given this afternoon at 2, in the Bijou Theatre, Nat Goodwin will recite Kipling's famous "Danny Deever" and tell of his recent experiences in Australia. William Gillette will give an imitation of an English dragoon addressing a Sunday School...
...decision was rendered, it is impossible to tell which side presented the stronger case. On the whole the Forum's chief advantages were in the form of her speakers and in their presentation of a consistent comprehensive line of argument; on the other hand, their rebuttal work was unexpectedly weak. The Prospect Union men made more attempt at direct rebuttal and their first man was the best of the evening in this respect. In form, they were all rather crude but they were distinctly ready speakers. In the matter of argument they differed in a marked degree. The first speaker...
...swept away by the advance of the antislavery movement and its champion Wendell Phillips. A single public meeting made him an outlaw for life. He felt he should not have been a platform speaker, but a member of the United States Senate. How that was I can not tell, but it always imparted a touch of tenderness to me to feel that he had made a sacrifice for what he loved. In the anti-slavery school there was something that made oratory. Phillips was only one of its eloquent men. He it was who brought completely into fashion the simple...
...Ireland's Kings, supported by a company of reputable performers of rare ability. Speaking of wasted energy, one can not cease to marvel at the large ingenuity expended in this creation. Leonard's description of the veteran who has been shot in the lip, and years after tries to tell the story of the "battle ob de Wappahanook," is a piece of blithering nonsense calculated to make a sane man doubt his own sanity, even as he wipes away the tears of laughter. So secure seats at once and drive dull care away and spend an evening with Gilmore...
...rather too early to tell much as to the battery candidates. Of the comparatively new pitchers, Stearns '99 is doing very well; he is left handed, with good speed and fair curves. Paine '97, last year's pitcher, is first rate as usual, but he does not pitch his straight balls high enough to be effective...