Word: leander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Coolidge, Leander...
...quite dramatic fashion. It can hardly boast of much originality, however. "A Backward Glance" is very amusing. "Roses and Cypress" is a sympathetically told tale of the exciting love of a pretty Italian peasant girl and the misery it brought her. It smacks a little of the hero and Leander. One lays down this number with the agreeable feeling of having been entertained and of having had one's imagination stimulated. This is precisely the object which the Advocate should set itself and this number argues well for those to come...
...recent meeting of the board of visitors of the University of Virginia, three new scholarships were founded: "The William W. Corcoran," "The Leander J. McCormick," and "The William H. Vanderbilt," the students under them to be nominated respectively by the gentleman in honor of whom they are named...