Word: transiently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Royal Box. The Belmont is the name of a hotel, Belmont is the name of a racetrack, Belmont is the name of a theatre. With the others the Belmont Theatre has much in common: the one caters to transients, guests for a day, a week; the other presents events of speed. Many a speedy transient will have been under the roof of the Belmont Theatre before the season ends. Already the fourth of the season has come, will go. It presents Walker Whiteside in a comedy first written by Alexandre Dumas, rewritten and presented three decades ago by Charles Coghlan...
...Doctor, who fostered this gossip by certifying Oliver's sterility, bore a time-honored grudge against both shipper and lawyer. So Oliver continued squabbling, capitalizing his crippled state, trespassing on distant islands for illicit loot-birds' eggs and eiderdown which he smuggled on stormy nights to transient English sailors. "Small things and great occur, a tooth falls out of the jaw, a man out of the ranks, a sparrow to the ground...
...fevered eye of the midshipman no more damnable sight appears upon the horizon than the solid bank of frenzied, gesticulating, grey-coated maniacs that occupies the opposite stand. For an hour or two he hurls epithets at its maddening solidity across the field where on his shipmates struggle for transient glory. If success be their reward he plunges over the boxes, with little regard for the grey bearded dignity of his seniors who have drawn the ringside seats, to writhe across the field in a snake dance of victory, chanting appropriate verses of "The Armored Cruiser Squadron," until, massed before...
...evening parade of the Cadets, now encamped on the common, was visited on Tuesday and last evening by a numerous bevy of ladies. The scene must have been highly interesting, both from the transient object of their visit, and the brilliant surrounding scenery of the horizon, but a still greater interest and feeling would be excited in visiting the camp at sunrise, when the reveille is beat...
...Barbe Bleu fires the emotions of Frenchmen. Men marry women and kill them for their wealth in every land; but in France a Barbe Bleu is news. Last week was bluebeard week at Marseilles, the chief and most casually immoral port city of France, and a famed stockade for transient White Slavers...