Word: wife
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Warren Cram, as M. Jourdain, carries through a difficult part with considerable ability. His accent, too, is good, though not as perfect as some of the others. H. W. Welch, however, who takes the part of his wife is not so strong and his accent is rather rough. Lucille, too, whose part is taken by J. W. Frothingham '99, is a little awkward in her movements. On the other hand, E. L. Dudley, as Nicole, the servant, is very good indeed, her laughter when she first comes on being absolutely contagious. R. L. Hoguet, who takes the part of both...
...thought nothing serious was the trouble and with characteristic determination stuck to his work until November. In creasing weakness, however, compelled him to relinquish work and to go to Colorado Springs. For some time he seemed to be gaining satisfactorily, but from about Christmas time he failed rapidly. His wife and three children survive...
...subtlety of the originals. No truer example of this has come to our notice than the Letters of Victor Hugo, done into English by Paul Meurice (Houghton Mifflin and Co.) It is a work of remarkable interest, including as it does Hugo's unpublished letters to his father, wife, children, and to many famous persons. But much of the refinement and delicacy of phrase is lost in the translating; and the reader feels that he is hearing Hugo's words from the lips of some one else and not from the author himself...
...table dining, and the trio are surprised by the entrance of Don Domingos, the master of court ceremonies, who has seen Fanchette enter, and finding only one lady present, and that one masked, is led by jealousy to suppose the young lady to be his young wife. The confusion attendant upon this situation is the foundation upon which the librettist has built up a succession of most interesting and amusing scenes and incidents, all of which terminate in the usual happy fashion...
...David Greene Haskins of the class of '37, rector of St. Bartholomew's Mission, Cambridgeport, died yesterday. He was born in Boston, May 1, 1818, the second son of Ralph Haskins, a well-known Boston merchant, and his wife, Rebecca-daughter of David Greene. He was graduated at Harvard in 1837, in the same class with Charles Theodore Rusell, Judge Nathaniel Holmes, Rev. John Weiss, Dr. Henry J. Bigelow, Horatio Hale, Surgeon General William J. Dale and David H. Thoreau. He studied at Andover Theological Seminary, and served as preceptor of Portland Academy, Portland...