Word: dressing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...Wood made his first appearance in Boston as Julian Gray, who, partly from Mr. Collins's design, but more from Mr. Wood's conception of dress and rendering, is a most curious personage. Though his acting is easy and natural, and many times effective, yet a certain heart-rending tone and Heep-like management of the hands leave behind a bad flavor, however slight. The Globe has always been noted for its elegant scenery, but it has produced nothing finer than the setting and appointments of this interesting play...
...treats very cavalierly, but for the most part its criticism is fair. The "Department of the Alumnae" we hesitate either to praise or blame. What reason, however, can there be that the author of the plea for an election system should give the following advice? "Elect stern simplicity in dress..... Elect muscle for physical dependence. Dare to mount a wall unassisted; and, further-more, choose a five-mile walk, with a study of nature's coloring by the way, in place of working dogs and dahlias in worsted. Elect a course of reading for a series of formal calls. Elect...
...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...
...accept the word in its new sense), and pointing out the great advantages to be derived therefrom. It seems to me that this ungentlemanly custom has obtained far too great a foothold in college. In some circles a man's actions, good or bad, his words, and even his dress, are the objects of sharp ridicule and thoughtless jest, which often scarce conceal the bad feeling beneath. A number of men move in a fixed groove, and any one who chooses to pursue his course without that groove becomes the object of unmerciful badgering from his more conventional companions. They...
...think in the street of a thing save her dress...