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Updated: May 19, 2025
Corrupt Practices Acts began to assume bulk in the early nineties, to limit the expenditure of candidates, and to enumerate the objects for which campaign committees might legitimately spend money.
In the cut-glass age, when young ladies had persuaded young men with long, curly mustaches to marry them, they sat down several months afterward and wrote thank-you notes for all sorts of cut-glass presents punch-bowls, finger-bowls, dinner-glasses, wine-glasses, ice-cream dishes, bonbon dishes, decanters, and vases for, though cut glass was nothing new in the nineties, it was then especially busy reflecting the dazzling light of fashion from the Back Bay to the fastnesses of the Middle West.
The Nineties would not let us off from another entertainment as characteristic as fin-de-siècle, the Englishman under the impression that he knew his Paris would have classified it nor did we want to be let off, though it lured us indoors. The big theatres had no attraction: to sit out a long play in a hot playhouse was not our idea of what spring nights were made for.
"And Summer's lease hath all too short a date." Shakespeare In the last day of May in the early 'nineties, about six o'clock of the evening, old Jolyon Forsyte sat under the oak tree below the terrace of his house at Robin Hill. He was waiting for the midges to bite him, before abandoning the glory of the afternoon.
Here they been ignoring eighties and nineties all night long." "You remember that children's story you wrote last Christmas about an Irish imp named Sean O'Claus?" his companion asked him. "Certainly," the cub said scowling. "I'll sell it some day." "You're right I remember," the cub said, his voice rising. "Like to bet you didn't register over ninety that day?
Both took a public part, and the political differences of the parents were continued in their children. Only a very rare and selfless nature could have carried through so difficult a situation without lack of either dignity or sweetness. Lord Carlisle, in the late 'eighties and early 'nineties, when I knew him best, showed no want of either.
The extraordinary spell of hot weather in the summer of 1896, when the temperature hung for ten consecutive days in the nineties, with days and nights of extreme discomfort, brought out the full meaning of this. While many were killed by sunstroke, the population as a whole was shown to have acquired, in better hygienic surroundings, a much greater power of resistance.
We were given in the Nineties to borrowing the things Whistler said and wrote, for we knew, if it is not every critic who does to-day, that he was as great a master of art criticism as of art. What the men who undertook to carry on tradition did for us was to arrange a good show.
The movement for shorter hours by law for women, which first attained importance in the nineties, was not the work of organized labor but of humanitarians and social workers. To be sure, the Federation has supported such laws for women and children workers, but so far as adult male labor was concerned, it has always preferred to leave the field clear for the trade unions.
Their visits to the archangel these vernal and autumnal picnics are their sole form of amusement. The movement is said to have diminished since the early nineties, when thirty thousand of them used to come here annually.
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