Word: cisterns
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Bring in water from pump in yard--Bring in water from cistern...
...villa of a Roman governor. In the streets, laid bare by gangs of Yugoslav and Albanian peasants, are narrow ruts where, Dr. Vlada Petovich of the National Museum believes, the chariots of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedon passed. In the cellar of a synagogue is a curious cistern at the bottom of which the diggers found seven gold pieces?cast there, in Dr. Petovich's opinion, by a scared Jew fleeing from the earthquake that destroyed the city...
...starts all the trouble in the Strauss version of Oscar Wilde's play.' It is at his birthday banquet that Salome suddenly revolts against his slimy glances, goes on to the terrace where John the Baptist (in the Strauss text Jokanaan) is chanting his denunciations from a cistern prison. To see the saint Salome beguiles a young Syrian officer to let him out. John talks about Christ. Salome does not even notice when the Syrian stabs himself. But jittery old Herod steps in the Syrian's blood and Salome must dance to soothe him. She can have...
...week was a sorry affair. The Salome was big Goeta Ljungberg who created some illusion so long as she stayed in her blood-red wrapper. When she started nervously shedding veils, feebly wriggling her abdomen, the audience was as uncomfortable as she. But she got her reward. Into the cistern went the executioner. For a minute only the double-basses were heard, shuddering as if they could see the head fall, the blood gush. Then the executioner's black arm ap peared holding the platter and what seemed to be a wad of cheesecloth...
...Kerrville, Tex., when Eleanor Allen rode a horse into a soft, cistern the girl was saved with a ladder, the horse removed by filling the cistern, floating...