Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Small round tables set for six each, a bouquet at every other plate; attractive waitresses, with French caps; the Vienna ladies' band in the gallery playing airs from the latest opera-bouffe; the statue of President Quincy on an elaborate pine-wood pedestal in the middle of the hall; near him that of Presidentess Smith, decolletee...
...feeling, and voices of better timbre, on the stage in Germany. Miss Wilde is said to be a fine actress, and to have been more popular once than even Materna. She must have had a fine voice when she was Prima Donna soprano at the Imperial Opera House of Vienna, but fine voices seldom last long. Her greatest merit now seems to be a distinct articulation, as we could easily follow her words, especially when she sang Liszt's version of Lorelei; and here, too, she showed her voice to better advantage than in the first selection, which is somewhat...
...Archibald Alexander, a recent graduate of Princeton College, has lately been appointed by the Trustees of Columbia Adjunct Professor in the Department of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy, to assist Professor Nairne. Mr. Alexander enters upon his duties fortified with two years of special study at Berlin and Vienna...
...Waterville Telegraph has the appearance of being printed on shoe-pegs. It ought to be sent to Vienna. It would carry off the first premium for the most complicated puzzle. We recognize it, however, by the design of an auger-hole between two lines of mashed bugs at the head of the first page. - Courant...