Word: fells
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Twelfth Night.If Shakespeare could have seen his own comedy "Twelfth Night" Monday night with Miss Julia Marlowe in the leading role, he would not have been surprised that Olivia fell in love with Viola at first sight. For Julia Marlowe brings to the part of Viola an impassioned but refined youthfulness of acting which cannot but charm. Eben Plympton as Duke Orsino read his lines well but was inclined at times to be too unimpassioned. Leslie Allen and Dan Robertson as Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Aguecheek were unimpeachable, and the rest of the company were fair...
...only last year that the management tried the experiment of reducing the price. The consequent increase in the sale of season tickets was immense, but whether this caused an increase of the total receipts from tickets was doubtful. At all events the receipts for the year fell off greatly This year the nine ought to be better supported. The first thing that can be done by Harvard men to show their interest in the team and their confidence in its success, is to buy season tickets. The new spirit that is animating the management and candidates alike promises a better...
...abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth to the year 1789 forced the people to such a pitch of frenzy that the heroes they committed seem almost justified. Six thousand nobles and gentry fell by the guillotine, and yet when one considers the multitudes that these nobles had been starving to death by taxation for a thousand years, the clemency that the masses showed in their hour of triumph and vengeance seems almost wonderful...
...Boston. He was riding on the front platform of an electric car, and in Cambridgeport he jumped off the car and ran along at its side for a short distance. He then tried to get on the front platform again while the car was in motion, but slipped and fell over, one foot falling on the track and being run over by the wheel. Tudor was carried immediately to the nearest station, and a surgeon examined his injured foot. Fearing that amputation was necessary-so severely had the bones been crushed-the surgeon at the station advised the removal...
...reciprocity treaty of 1854 trebled trade between Canada and the United States, and the trade fell off at the abrogation of the treaty-Hunt's Merch. Mag., XXXIV...