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...courtyard of Fort Braschi at dawn Ugo Traviglia was marched before a firing squad. Dramatically he begged his executioners' pardon, asked to be shot in the breast, facing the rifles with his eyes unbound. It was not granted. Ugo Traviglia was blindfolded, shot in the back...
...courtyard of Eliot House there frisks daily a furry and appealing little dog, owned by one of the tutors, which pathetically represents the unattained and perhaps unattainable House spirit of general camaraderie and friendliness. The actual spirit of Eliot House is more nearly personified by the intelligence, independence, and withal occasional warm-heartedness of Professor Matthiessen's cat, which lives on terms of cold tolerance with the mice that disport themselves about the dining room...
...William T. Aldrich of Boston. Its exterior is in the familiar Institutional Renaissance, but the interior, adapted largely from the new Fogg Art Museum at Harvard, is one of the most efficient museum buildings in the country. As in the Fogg, galleries stem from a central Palladian arcaded courtyard...
...cold. Several times Gobel got up to go out in the empty, soot-black courtyard for air. Then he would come back to clatter coal into his boiler. It made a great deal of noise. It was 3:40 (he was off at 6) when Gobel went out in the yard for his next look around. It was his last one. This time there was noise in the boiler room but not from the shovel. Weigand scrambled over the coal pile. A slug shattered his right arm. He dropped his gun on the coal. He picked it up with...
...Charlus bow like a slave before Mme. de Sainte-Euverte, a woman he had always refused to recognize, till the author decides to write this work, it is the change that has come about that he emphasizes. The unevenness of two stones in the Prince de Guermantes courtyard, for instance, brings back to him the whole atmosphere of Venice, where he had stopped on stones of the same unevenness, and of his early years. In contrast to these reminiscences are the facts of the present. Mme. Verdurin has become the Princess de Guermantes, Gilberte is fat and has a daughter...