Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...produce ships suitable for our foreign carrying trade; therefore they should be put on the free list: Wells. "Our Merchant Marine...
...seldom have an income of over $50,000, and the most famous clergymen and physicians rarely receive more than $20,000 annually. The thing to be considered is not the maximum prize but the chance of success. Literature is comparatively free from the risks of failure to which the merchant is exposed. The young clergyman, lawyer, or physician often has a hard struggle to earn his daily bread but an author who is even decently equipped rarely spends the year without earning something. The profession of literature is very attractive, and contains more men who love their work than...
BOSTON THEATRE.- Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in "The Merchant of Venice...
...programme for the reading of Mr. Irving and Miss Terry at Huntington Hall this afternoon at 2 o'clock is as follows: Gemini at Virgo (Calverly), Miss Terry; Feast of Belshazzar (Arnold). Miss Terry; Hamlet and the Players (Shakspeare), Mr. Irving; Copper field and the Walter (Dickens), Mr. Irving; Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), Miss Terry; Edmund Kean (English Actors), Mr. Irving...
...send an agent West in the spring for the purpose of advancing his trade interests in that section of the country. Mr. Dunne has always had uniform success with his patrons and has established a reputation among college men which places his firm in the front rank of the merchant tailors who supply the demand made by students of the country for exclusive and novel goods...