Word: wife
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Among the passengers lost on the illfated steamer Colima, which recently went down in a storm off the Pacific coast was Professor Harold Whiting, a graduate of Harvard of the class of 1877, who with his wife and four children was on his way to New York. He had just resigned from his position as Associate Professor of Physics at the University of California, and intended to carry on private study in Cambridge...
...Girofle-Girofla" is full of fun and has a most ingenious plot capitally worked out. Don Bolero d'Alcarazas and his wife Aurore have twin daughters, Cirofle and Girofla, who are so remarkably alike that the only means of distinguishing them is by their clothes. One wears blue and the other pink. Aurore has contrived to appease two enemies by arranging a double marriage - Marasquin to marry Girofle and Mourzouk Girofla. Marasquin arrives attired for the bridal, and is informed that Mourzouk, owing to a toothache, is unable to come, and that the wedding must be postponed. But Marasquin insists...
Kidd enters, slightly under the influence of numerous potations, and has a very ludicrous scene with his wife, who does not recognize him in his piratical disguise. The whole second act is full of clever songs and dances, which have little to do with the plot...
...hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books. So he went to Boston and never was heard of again." To go back to oratory and acting, many actors have wondered why they have failed in making speeches, and many orators have...
...their comedies the scenes are usually laid in Greece, the costumes and money Grecian, but the oaths are always Roman. Plautus's experience as a trader accounts for his knowledge of a seaman's life. "Whoever wants a peck of trouble," he says, "let him get himself a wife and a boat; these two will be enough." Plautus concerned himself little about his relations with Greek originals. He cared only to amuse his audiences, and chose the plots which were easiest to transpose...