Word: visited
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...preliminary arrangements preparatory to a visit to the East having been made, Mrs. Butterfield and Benjamin started for Chicago, where they were to take a sleeping-car for Boston. Mr. Butterfield remained at home to meet a sudden demand for his "In Excelsis Bug Exterminator," caused by the arrival of a band of French Canadians, who proposed settling on the farm-lands in the immediate vicinity of Saug Centre...
Mlle. Rhea has captured the capital. "Washington society," says the Spirit of the Times, "has taken her up and made a pet of her. President Arthur attended her performance of 'Adrienne' - his first visit to the theatre since his inauguration - and went behind the scenes between the acts, so that Mlle. Rhea might be presented to him. 'I admire all of Washington very much,' she said in reply to a question. 'And all Washington admires you very much,' gallantly responded the President, who has not forgotten how to charm the fair sex as adroitly as he manages politicians...
...Political Institutions," by Herbert Spencer, has just been issued. Mr. Spencer will visit America next summer, but has refused all invitations to lecture here...
...season. In our opinion, it is the best spectacular play ever seen in Boston, from the fact that it possesses what none of the others do, a plot. In addition to this, the machinery and mechanical effects are gorgeous and wonderful, the whole making a performance well worth a visit...
...regarded in England as the American Tennyson, and during his visit to Oxford in 1869 the honorary degree of D. C. L. was conferred upon him. In Russia he was likewise popular, and was a member of the Russian Academy of Science. When nominated as Lord Rector of Edinburg University he was defeated by a small majority by Mr. Disraeli...