Word: witness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...memories to let so noteworthy a building go without a protest. Here was the headquarters of General Artemus Ward, during the first days of the Revolution. In its corners are the dents of revolutionary muskets stacked there by the patriot soldiers. Here, also, Oliver Wendell Holmes, America's greatest wit and one of her most charming writers, was born. Loosely bound to the past and with but few historical associations, the loss of so famous a building would be irreparable. Misfortune through it be, we fear the Holmes house is doomed, and that after this year we shall never...
...seats that the authorities have had to arrange for an extra morning performance on Wednesday, in addition to the one previously announced for Saturday. Special trains are to be run to accommodate the crowds of visitors, and Cambridge is expected to present as lively a scene as is witnessed there at the annual commencement. Indeed, the interest excited by the promised representation of the "Birds" seems greatly to exceed that manifested when Sophocles' "Ajax" was played last year. Not that all the audience will be able to appreciate the wit and satire of Aristophanes' comedy, though the ladies...
Lost-A library copy of "Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton." Please leave...
Lost-A library copy of "Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton." Please leave...
Lost-A library copy of "Wit and Wisdom of Lord Lytton." Please leave...