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...familiar subject. "I remember him first during the 1952 campaign, when he abandoned it to deal with a prison riot back in Illinois. From a hilltop I could see him, a somewhat incongruous figure in a brown Brooks Brothers hat and a Chesterfield coat, walk into the prison courtyard and calmly sway a frenzied mob into returning to their cells with a warning that he would order the guards to fire once at the ceiling and then to fire directly at the rioters. The fusillade aimed at the ceiling was enough; the strike was over...
Bite and Breadth. There could be no better place for a solitary boy to explore; there was a baroque staircase in one courtyard, set with "superfluous little landings with niches and benches." There was a hinged portrait in a salon, which swung back to reveal a trophy room hung with "guns ranged in big racks, ticketed with numbers corresponding to a register in which were recorded the shots fired from each. "There were, each summer, strolling players who would politely request per mission to perform in the theater. When someone went for a walk, there was a carriage assigned...
Charge plates have been in use since September, and the report suggests the possibility of more mechanization in charging out books. Despite recently announced plans for a four-story addition within Widener's inner courtyard and the removal of the fine arts collection to new stacks adjoining the Fogg Museum, overcrowding is predicted to be an increasing problem...
...clock Saturday morning, steady rain was slowly turning the green Eliot House courtyard into a quagmire. I called my date for the football game and said "Good morning, Susan, it's raining...
Unpaid Hardware. But Ahmad could be generous. Following the Koran's injunction on charity, he would spend hours daily under a tree in his palace courtyard receiving all comers, handing out money to widows, orphans, old soldiers, the halt and the blind. His several ramshackle palaces were filled with unworkable plumbing, gilt furniture, fading carpets and hundreds of clocks, all stopped...