Word: landlords
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wickedness; he has faults which would be inexcusable in older people, but they are naughtiness rather than wickedness. In the man, however, these faults show meanness and smallness. There is not a single sin which is not mean. Avarice shows a mean spirit in the relations between a miserly landlord and his tenants; the drunkard is mean in the neglect of his family. In short, committing sin shows the choice of what is petty, mean, and small in place of what is generous and grand...
...Cellier's comedy opera, "Dorothy," will be produced for one week at the Castle Square Theatre. This opera is a comparative stranger to theatre-goers, and its story is worth retelling. Dorothy, the daughter of a wealthy foxhunting squire, dons peasant dress and at the village inn serves the landlord's customers, and falls in love with a gentleman whose horse has lost a shoe. Dorothy is accompanied by a friend, who masquerades with her, and also falls in love with a customer. The two girls give their lovers two rings, which the lovers swear never to part with...
...from the writer's diary at Oberammergau during the passion play. By means of a series of daily entries the girl who played the angel of the adoration in the passion play is made to fall most hopelessly in love with the writer. She was the daughter of the landlord at whose hostelry the family of the writer were staying and her passion was conceived as she waited on the young gentleman at table. At the end of four days they take a long and nocturnal walk during which, "innocent and pure as she is" she does not resent being...
...more dinners for Harvard undergraduates at Young's or Parker's is the edict of the landlord of those hotels...