Word: patient
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...plot is very slight. The best character in the play is Higgins, the servant of Dr. Clyde, who, by reading his master's medical books at odd moments, imagines that he knows everything about the theory of medicine, and only needs practice. He accordingly undertakes to prescribe for a patient in the doctor's absence. The acting is quite good, Warren, of course, leading with his assumption of Higgins. Mr. Burrows, as Dr. Clyde, and Mrs. Vincent, as his wife, are both good; we have rarely seen Mrs. Vincent act so quietly. Mr. Wilson makes the most...
...very nicest people) has gone to join his mamma at Cannes, where that estimable lady is trying the effects of the soft Mediterranean climate upon her too excitable American nerves. But let not the candid reader suppose that Bramah's entire summer will be passed in soothing the dear patient's fevered brow. No, he will push a leetle farther along the Riviera. The truth is, that a little pecuniary transaction took place on Pooter's departure from home, between himself and his revered grandparents. Ever since then the money has burnt in his pocket, and has nearly eaten...
...fully sensible of the inviolable rights of individuals, and are sufficiently patient, even during the Mid-Years, to put up with the noisy rounds of Graeco-Roman practised overhead, and can endure with philosophic calmness Smith's hilarious "Jubilate to the 'unconscious moon.' " But, unfortunately, our patience is not infinite; and we must protest against the habit of certain occupants of the upper rooms in the south entry of Matthews, of throwing bottles down through the staircase shaft. Thus the necessary and much-frequented passage-way to the basement is made very disagreeable, if not positively dangerous. We are convinced...
...patient love by kindness...
...such petty thefts occur only occasionally, the members will endure them with a patient shrug; but if, on the other hand, two or three men persist in habitual thieving, they ought, when detected, to be summarily ejected from the Reading-Room and thereafter deprived of its privileges...