Word: executioner
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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19. Should the plans submitted by the Rapid Transit Commission of Boston be carried into execution?
The influence of the mid-year period is evident in the ninth number of the Advocate, for there is a slight falling-off in this Advocate from the excellence of the previous issues of the magazine. With the exception of one or two things, there is nothing in the number...
"Norah's Excuse" is a life-like reminiscence told in the Irish dialect. No blame certainly attaches to a man who is not a master of dialect and who does not pretend to be. It is the writer who attempts to use a dialect which he has not thoroughly mastered...
Thackery says in one of his novels that "a woman crossed in her literary vanity is as dangerous as a man in love," and even if the authors of these charming daily and fortnightly themes have any literary vanity (which, mind, we do not say they possess), we have no...
Of the verse of the number, "Dandelions" is a short poem, delicate in fancy and excellent in execution-"A Toast to Clarinda," a rhymed toast with more or less swing-and "A Poor Scholar" (a trifle more ambitious than the other two), a poem whose theme is Love, prettily conceived...