Word: cloistering
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...afternoons the Governor, his wife and two sons swam in the Atlantic surf and sunned on the deck beside the Casino swimming pool. When it was time for a change, they put on sports clothes and ate dinner in the big, patio-styled Cloister. They retired early to their $40-a-day suite, to be ready in the morning for traditional Southern breakfasts-ham & eggs, grits, hot biscuits-and another day's relaxation. While the Governor golfed, his wife usually went for walks; son John, 8, learned to ride a bicycle on the alabaster-white beach, harassed...
...Bischoff, curator of the Berlin University zoological museum, marched into Father Schmitz's cloister and demanded to see the collection. Father Schmitz showed him the phorid flies (the ants had been sent to Maastricht's natural history museum for safekeeping). Snapped Professor Dr. Bischoff: "From today on all this belongs to me. And I want the Wasmann ants, too." "Give Up." This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht. He helped patriotic Dutch formicophiles hide the ant collection in the cellar of the Town Hall. But Professor...
...cannot praise a fugitive and cloister'd Vertue, unexercis'd and unbreath'd, that never sallies out and seeks her adversary; but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat...
...richest, biggest role of her career. She rewards him consistently with smooth Hollywood formula acting, and sometimes-especially in collaboration with Mr. Gotten-with flashes of acting that are warmer and more mature. He has brought his newest find, Jennifer (The Song of Bernadette) Jones out of the cloister and made her an All-American girl. She rewards him with a nervous, carefully studied, somewhat overintense performance. Selznick placed a big bet on Shirley Temple's comeback and she pays off enchantingly as a dogged, sensitive, practical little girl with a talent for bargaining...
...first crack of dawn till the last detail of the day is done. We get a sweet picture of how the babes will go for that. The average girl will probably be so bored after her first few weeks in the forces that upon her first leave she will cloister herself in some nearby forest and cry a half dozen GI hankies into a complete state of saturation...