Word: casement
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...does, and had as fresh and bounding an appreciation of the firm, bril liant flesh of mindless womanhood." "This Was Suicide." He had committed, she saw, "the classic type of treachery which every educated person knows at once for the base and final act it is, for Sir Roger Casement committed it in the last war." Like a "poor young idiot" he joined the Nazis' fight against his homeland not when Germany was winning but when she was losing...
...models' stand, with a moth-eaten bearskin for a blanket. When his salary at a press-clipping agency was upped to 30 shillings a week, he was in clover. In Sussex, in a farmhouse that had once been a priory, in a big sunny room with casement windows, he wrote his first, brilliantly titled, critical book, The Wine of the Puritans...
...World War I honest Bernard O'Reilly wore the uniform of a sergeant in the Royal Irish Constabulary. One day in 1916, near his post along the lonely Kerry coast, a U-boat surfaced, put a passenger ashore. Sir Roger Casement, famed Irish patriot, was back from the Kaiser's Germany with a message for Ireland's underground rebels. A countrywoman spied him sneaking along the beach, notified the constabulary. Sergeant O'Reilly hurried to the scene, made the arrest that sent Sir Roger to a traitor's hanging in the Tower of London...
Maverick Justice. Thenceforward he was to look from one window of the law after the other, finally arriving in 1902 at the high, broad casement of the U.S. Supreme Court. Sixty-one, he counted on about ten more years of active service. Twenty-nine years later he was still on the bench...
This other Dona (whom thousands of Miss du Maurier's readers know as "the real me,") knew that "life need not be bitter, nor worthless, nor bounded by a narrow casement, but could be limitless, infinite-that it meant suffering, and love, and danger, and sweetness, and more than this even, much more." How much more, Miss du Maurier wisely neglects to say; but she does bring on, as Dona's lover, the one sort of man who could conceivably supply it: a Frenchman (They Understand Love). He is a philosophical pirate, as tired of the world...