Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Selection, "The Chieftain," Sullivan. (First time...
...necessary for Don Manuel to ask the consent of that pompous functionary before pressing his suit. The Inquisitor, however, has designs of a nuptial nature on Farina himself, and to put his rival out of the way he shows Don Manuel a prenuptial contract made with a fierce Moorish chieftain when the present Alcayde was but an infant. By this agreement Don Manuel is to wed the Moorish prince Kazooka on attaining his majority, and it is on his twenty-first birthday that the action of the play takes place...
Beethoven's Overture "Coriolanus." which opened the eighth Symphony Concert last night in Saunders Theatre, has been identified by Wagner with the scene "between Coriolanus, his mother and his wife on the battlefield before the gates of his native city, when the chieftain yielded to femine entreaties, refused to assault the place and thereupon suffered death at the hands of the Volcian, Attius, his associate in the enterprise." The overture is very impressive, beginning with the huge C given by the strings with all their might, followed by a short, sharp chord from the entire orchestra, and developing with great...
...small States, subject to the will of a bold peasantry. But in the middle of the following century the governing power fell into fewer hands, and the Vikings began their explorations. When Harold came into power be desired sole dominion and wished to rule Norway alone. He gave the Chieftain's choice of exile or vassalage. During his time Iceland was discovered and many emigrations were made there. It received various names from the explorers, but one chieftain finally called it Iceland because of the great prevalence...
...first about the temples in little bands but finally agreed to unite and form a democracy. A constitution was adopted from Norway; the state was divided into four parts, and the latter into thirty nine parishes equally distributed over the island. Its population consists of three classes, the priest chieftain, common free man, who kept slaves, and the peasant. Its religion was native until Christianity was introduced...