Word: casement
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...architecture, in keeping with the surrounding Harvard Buildings, is modernized Georgian in style. One of the most notable features of the building at this stage of construction is the large number of spacious windows. Made of white-steel casement, this type of fenestration will insure an adequate supply of air and sunlight. Continuous ventilation in the new structure will also be made possible by an elaborate system of ducts operated on soundproof platforms on the top story...
With the advent of warmer weather the thoughts of the average run of young men turn in the general direction of the tender passion and its inevitable concomitants. Already an acute observer may see an occasional lady leaning over her casement in the hope that a modern knight will pass by in a suave phaeton gayly tirra-lirraing. Whereas the Vagabond does not profess to be more than slightly conversant with such cardiac matters he has heard from vehement, if not avowedly authentic sources that a knowledge of poetry is rarely a hindrance and often a help...
Laureate Masefield apologizes for not being an actual thruster, explains how a poet may open his casement on perilous seas: "I have taken a footman's modest part in countless hunts, and have also hunted on a bicycle. When one knows, as I did, every inch of the wide countryside, every path, stile, gate and gap, as well as the workings of a fox's mind, one can hunt, even on foot, with great success, on cold-hunting days. . . . After all, poetry is not a written record of what one does. Were it so, Shakespeare would have been...
...Berlin, not even in Prussia, but in Saxony, in Leipzig sits the German Supreme Court: das Reichsgericht. Justice is done beneath a mighty dome topped by a big bronze statue of Truth. Through tall casement windows Saxon sunbeams glint upon carved oak. In such a setting presiding Judge Baumgarten (except when fiddling with one of his ears) is a sight awesome as Olympian Jove. Boldly to face the justice down, to use the Supreme Court dome as a demagog's thumping tub, to hurl from dem Reichsgericht a defy which reverberated throughout Europe, such was the feat last week...
Several of His Majesty's ministers and a sprinkling of potent financiers had gathered in David Lloyd George's library, for what reason none of them knew. Drawing out his watch, stepping over to the tall casement window, the spry Welshman dramatically flung the window wide. "I am going to count three," said he with his eye on the second hand. "After the third count listen, listen for all you're worth!" One, two, three-straining ears caught from far away, from a battlefield on the other side of the English channel, a faint sound pitched awesomely...