Word: wife
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...censure the vices of his time in thoughtful and didactic works. Labiche, nevertheless, borrowed much from Moliere, and, in fact he and his contemporaries were "gleaners of Moliere's harvest." One of Moliere's most successful types, that of the bourgeois who is bold abroad but with his wife "timide," is often well used by Labiche. "L'Auvergnat," acted by the Cercle Francais in 1888--"Le Voyage de M. Perrichon" and "La Poudre aux Yeux," also produced by the Cercle, are three of his most successful plays. Others of his best known works are "Le Chapeau de Paille d'Italie...
...Amante" and "les Transatlantiques" are the chief works of M. Abel Hermant. The latter is a mild satire without malice on the customs of modern Frenchmen and Americans. It tells of the different characteristics of the families of a French nobleman living in Paris, and of his wife the daughter of an American millionaire...
...Mouth of Babes," by J. LaFarge '01, is an admirable bit of work. It is delicate and tender in conception, and artistic in execution. The theme of the story is the uplifting of a day-laborer's character through the spirit of his dead wife, ever present in their little daughter...
...rushes upon Schluck and embraces him. Schluck assumes a high-pitched voice and calls Jau by endearing names, all the time endeavoring to kiss him. Then Jau breaks away in horror and calls on the courtiers to remove the fright. They of course refuse, saying that she is his wife. This only makes him angry and the act closes with Schluck singing a love song, and Jau trying his best to escape...
...Copeland will read the following selections from Kipling at 8 o'clock tonight in Sever 11: "Ford of Kabul River," "The Sea Wife," "The Widow at Windsor," "The First Chantey," "The Last Chantey," "Soldier and Sailor," "Gentlemen Rankers," "La Nuit Blanche" the song from "The Brushwood Boy," "The Song of the Banjo," "Mulvaney's Account of the Taking of Lungtungpen...