Word: curtain
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...from the audience, filled it with water. He then stripped and gave a preliminary exhibition by squeezing himself in the can and remaining under water for one minute. After this he disappeared under water again, the water-tight lid was locked with six locks by the committee, and the curtain drawn. At the end of three minutes Mr. Houdini appeared, the can still hermetically sealed, and upon opening it, the water was disclosed...
...present rise sheer from the sea-cliff, and but for a garden wall it is quite easy to walk around it. Of the structural refinements of Both well, on the other hand, he does not seem sufficiently appreciative. The style is not good; one grows tired of "encient" and "curtain," and other un-necessarily technical phrases like "bridge of approach" and "battering (i.e. sloping) bases"; harsh collations of words are common, and even quite inadmissible expressions, like easily in "the prophecy was easily declared verified," occur. No such book should appear without a good map. Besides the little bibliography...
...once. They appear one by one, pretending to be the injured husbands of the women who have sent the flowers. In the burlesque scene which follows the joke is turned on Narciso, but the amicable relations of the five friends are not upset by the fun, and as the curtain falls they drink to each others' health in a hearty toast...
...this possible, all the ground-floor seats in Sanders Theatre will be removed, and the stage built out into the pit about 20 feet. By means of scenic devices and drops, the galleries and tiled roof of the Elizabethan theatre will be made to appear in circular form. The curtain used will be a "trayers," suspended between pillars at either side of the stage, and the rear of the stage will be formed by an "arras," through which the actors will make their entrances. The stage furnishings will consist of a few Elizabethan chairs and settles. Professors G. P. Baker...
...Blair presented it in Boston, 1899, but sufficiently faithful to the original. From first to last the interest of the spectator is kept tense; and, whether one agrees or not with the premises and the conclusion of the mathematician-dramatist Echegaray, he is likely to feel, when the curtain finally drops, that he has witnessed the performance of a work of real artistic value. J. D. M. FORD...