Word: cornering
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Late in the afternoon of his death, Delcassé went alone to the gardens of the Bishop's palace to hear the band. Heart attack came on. He retired to a secluded corner of the garden. Caretakers found his body soon after twilight...
...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 appears between the back wall of the stoop and the house. A large window...
...little necessary livening up in the mental attitude, gives every assurance that the ghost industry of Great Britain can hope in the near future to compete on equal terms with the Mayflower relic monopoly in America, and, with Pilgrim spoons and Pilgrim shoebuckles being dug up in every corner of the States from Orono to Texarkana, even the most ambitious ghost could not hope for a brighter business forecast...
...conveniently labelled "sophomoric", but it is too elastic to be classified under one head. It may stretch over a man's entire life or end with his senior year at high school. While it lasts the philosophy of the "milieniumite", the pleasant dream of a little "kingdom round the corner" holds complete sway...
...milleniumite stage director, the ultimatum of "work or starve". His first job and his hardest is the job of finding a job which he can develop and which will develop him. Until he succeeds, his purpose will be lost to sight, and the vision of a kingdom round the corner dance instead before his eyes...