Word: woman
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...many tears she told the ancient and somewhat threadbare story of the hard-hearted judge sentencing the innocent husband to the congenial labor of shoemaking for the benefit of the Commonwealth, and leaving her with fifteen small children to provide for. How could the husband of such a devoted woman be guilty of any crime? But Jones was too wise to be caught, and, steeling his heart, he tried to crush her by his formula: "It would afford me the sincerest gratification, madam, to furnish you with any pecuniary aid in my power, but I am constrained to say, with...
...Museum.THE "Christmas Supper" has been the attraction at this theatre for the past week. The play is fresh and full of humor. If one can make himself believe that a woman can so successfully disguise herself, by simply wearing a blond wig and a ball-dress of a different color, that her husband's eye does not recognize her, then to him the scene where Madame Gaillardin flirts with her husband would be delicious; but we are all the time kept wondering that he can't see through the thin disguise, and thus we lose half...
...conquered by a woman...
Cold and selfish the rest, but a woman's soft heart...
Would be, for a woman, mirabile dictu...