Word: thro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...literature. But when at last the dream came true, he found it more nearly a nightmare: he was bored to tears. Mary grew madder, Charles grew sadder-and Londoners became used to the undignified spectacle of drunken Charles being "absolutely carried home upon a man's shoulders thro' Silver Street, up Parson's Lane." nearly falling off but "by a cunning jerk" regaining his balance until "deposited like a dead log at Gaffar Westwood's." He chafed under the increasing constraint that heralded the approaching Victorian era. He died in 1834, aged only 59 but thankful...
Professors understood the meaning of the Rebellion Tree as well. This entry appears in the Faculty Records for July 18,1821, for instance: "Great irregularity and disorder took place yesterday, being the day of valedictory. The class marched in procession thro' the several streets of Cambridge, many in a state of intoxication, and conducting with gross indecency and insult as they passed the houses of some of the officers; and in the College yard insulting the whole authority by dancing around the Rebellion Tree with the shout of friendship and rebellion...
...safe Delivery, and your Acquisition of a Daughter gives me Pleasure. In naming our Children I think you do well to begin with the most antient State. And as we cannot have too many of so good a Race, I hope you and Madame de la Fayette will go thro' the Thirteen . . . While you are proceeding, I hope our States will some of them new-name themselves. Miss Virginia, Miss Carolina, and Miss Georgiana will sound prettily enough; but Massachusetts and Connecticut, are too harsh even for the Boys, unless they were to be Savages...
...title role, girlish, pixyish Metropolitan Opera Star Patrice Munsel, 27, is not very successful in re-creating Melba's tempestuous personality. But Songstress Munsel is handsomely gowned and in good voice as she sings a wide selection of numbers, from the Mad Scene in Lucia to Comin' Thro...
...most people, famed or humble. Publishers were "consummate knaves," and his own "a blockhead." He found Charles Lamb "a miserable, drink-besotted, spindle-shanked skeleton of a body, whose 'humour' as it is called, seemed to me neither more nor less than a fibre of genius shining thro' positive delirium and crackbrainedness." Robert Browning was "loudish and talkative beyond need." Even Emerson, who boosted Carlyle's American reputation and mailed him his U.S. royalties, irked the grumpy Scot with his perennial good temper and "unsubduable placidity...