Word: hibernian
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...theatrical managers have seized upon this national wave of immoral curiosity. They now have three ways (if one is to judge by fallible experience) of catching the communal eye of an avid but selective public. One is the judicious compound of the Semitic and the Hibernian*; another is the conservative use of the name Shakespeare; the third is the extravagant employment of courteous incontinence...
...suppose that, clearing the footlights with one agile spring, you were to seize the hand about to sink its yellow fingers into the heroine's throat, pull the miscreant to whom it is attached from the secret passageway behind the purple arras, turn him over to the uniformed Hibernian just offstage, and yourself earn the right to that final kiss, instead of the dilatory but bandolined hero...
...principal actor) intended should happen, there would be a sustained sound of laughter bubbling up through tears. It is another Abie's Irish Rose, with one of the nationalities somewhat altered. The Abie in this case is an Italian immigrant who has acquired wealth and a resolute Hibernian spouse. The attendant complications need scarcely be enumerated. They include the intrusion on the wife's well-ordered domain of organ-grinders and spaghetti-jugglers from Mr. Malatesta's laborious past. They further include a titled wooer for the daughter of the family and all manner of familiar domestic...
...speakers at the convention will be the following: Sir Henry Mortimer Durand, the British Ambassador; Bishop J. M. Thoourn, of India; Hon. H. B. F. Macfarland, President of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; Robert E. Speer and John R. Mott, of New York; Sir Algernon Coote, President Hibernian Missionary Society; Hon. S. B. Capen, President of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions; Bishops Galloway, of Mississippi and McDowell, of Chicago; Mr. Robert R. Gailey, of Tientsin, China; and Dr. Karl Fries, Chairman World's Student Christian Federation, Stockholm, Sweden...
Wendell '91, made the hit of the evening with his topical song, "That's a thing I can't understand." Slocum, '90, was excellent as a newspaper reporter, being especially funny in his manner of taking notes. Cheney, '90, provoked a good deal of laughter as the Hibernian Ganymede...