Word: woman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...wife has a passion for society, and she succeeds through the overpowering strength of this passion in leading her man to a new mode of living. The latter unfortunately is too well received by society. He makes so good an impression that he is sought after by a married woman who is estranged from her husband. There-upon the wife becomes jealous, and finally repents that she has turned her husband into one corner of the eternal triangle. She begs him to return to his old habits of life, but to her consternation he informs her that...
...proof sheets of "Underwoods" Stevenson sent to Miss Adelaide Boodle, a woman whom he had always termed throughout his life "game-keeper," for the reason that she lived on his country estate at Bournemouth and acted as its care-taker...
...usage, the Harvard Senior's gown means, if anything, that his sister has taken a bachelor's degree. It is a bachelor's gown, so few Seniors are really entitled to it before Class Day, and not all the wearers, unforunately, are entitled to it then. It is a woman's gown--hence the Mother Hubbard shape, and the cut of a sweet girl graduate on the maker's advertisement. Now nobody minds whether the Senior wears his sister's insignia or not; it is funny, but harmless. But when the 1916 Class Committee solemnly asserts that this guileless travesty...
...stage for "Hamlet" will be modelled upon that constructed in 1893 for the production of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman," reproduced in 1903 for the performance of "Twelfth Night" by Maude Adams. On account of the elaborateness of the preparations, the talent of the actor, and the impressiveness of the occasion this production of "Hamlet" is the most important event of several years in drama at Harvard...
This stage was first constructed in 1893 for the presentation of Ben Jonson's "Silent Woman." It was afterwards remodelled at great expense and is now the most nearly perfect Elizabethan stage in existence. The last time it was used was in 1907, when Made Adams acted "Twelfth Night...