Word: built
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...this country are to preserve our government, which has been built with so much sacrifice and labor, we must keep it free of the influence of money. That means, of course, that we must scotch corruption relentlessly wherever we find it. In dealing with this question of corruption, the trouble is that corruption shades off in a hundred different ways that become increasingly difficult to detect...
...Majesty passed a morning last week in superintending the design of a nursery and a cupboard. The "nursery"-a suite of rooms equipped with every appliance for infant culture-will be built to adjoin Her Majesty's own apartments in Buckingham Palace. The cupboard, an ingenious toy stable, will be copied, with a few improvements, after that which houses the toys of Princess Mary's two infant sons, at Goldsborough Hall, Yorkshire. "Does Her Majesty expect an infant?" queried humble newsgatherers. "Her Majesty," retorted lofty courtiers, "will entertain at Buckingham Palace from January to June her granddaughter, (TIME...
...much as ten shillings a week if he told his lines with a swaggering tongue. . . . In the Fifteenth century, roles were cast with a nice eye to harmony between the part itself and the trade of the man who was to play it. Plasterers created the world, shipwrights built the Ark, the chandlers were the Shepherds who carried the Star, butchers assisted in the Crucifixion. Christ, in one French play, had to recite 4,000 verses; in 1437 at Metz, during the Crucifixion scene, both Judas and Christ were prostrated by emotional strain. But of all the many Miracle plays...
...house, built half a century ago, stands far back from the street, masked by huge trees. There memories foregather. There Charles S. Stratton, exploited by P. T. Barnum as "General Tom Thumb," dwelt with his wife, that delectable midget, the onetime Lavinia Warren...
...Managed" by Mr. Barnum, the General repeatedly toured Europe, became famous in Manhattan as a midget man-about-town who could afford to keep his own ocean-going yacht. "Tamed" by his "dearest Lavinia," Tom Thumb settled down at Middleboro, ordered built for her the house which straightway became a local show place...