Word: casement
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...criticized adversely for extravagance, for maintaining a larger army than conditions warrant, for costly foreign embassies. But more striking than this are comments from Mrs. Casement, widow of the notorious Roger Casement, executed during the war for treason, from St. John Ervine, famed Irish novelist and dramatist, from John Dillon, onetime leader of the Home Rule Party...
...atmosphere that has never been surpassed. He painted chiefly genre pieces and" homely portraits of the Dutch bourgeosie, but has two known landscapes in Dutch galleries, and a Christ with Mary and Martha in the Coats collection, Glasgow. The Metropolitan has three Vermeers, including the Young Woman Opening a Casement in the Morgan collection, and the Sleeping Cook, in the Altman collection...
...side of farm-house and supported by wooden beams", she continues. "But if it were removed the house would still be complete against wind and weather. The house of gray-white stone masonry, appears at the side of the stage to the left of the audience, showing a casement window and steps leading up to a "Dutch" door. The stoop swings around the corner of the house at the left and back of the stage, where an unseen window admits a flood of sunset light at the end of Act 1. The end of a table covered with white cloth...
...appearance it will closely resemble the granite of the original structure. The roof will be of copper, slanting off from the eaves of the older part and surrounded with a coping. There will be no buttresses and no towers, and the whole side will be plentifully lighted by numerous casement windows...
...poetical contributions, "Mount Auburn, May 30, 1900," by R. M. Green '02, is a eulogy in blank verse to the soldier dead in the cemetry; "Thro' the Casement," by Edward Jocelyn, is a light ballad with a ring to it that makes one desire to read it again...