Word: garret
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends with his keeper and in six weeks time wrote Les Amours des Eléphants. The German studied all the books and documents written on the elephant, then wrote a work in three volumes, entitled An Introduction to the Study of the Elephant. The Russian retired to his garret, drank quantities of vodka, numerous samovars of tea, produced a small volume : The Elephant-Docs He Exist? The Pole immediately set to work and in six weeks finished a pamphlet called The Elephant and the Polish Question...
...understanding, these fellowships will do their part to create a new appreciation of scholarship. Shallow materialistic philosophies have tended to throw too much emphasis upon that which is immediately useful. This attitude adopted in the colleges crowns the athlete with laurel and scorns the scholar toiling alone in his garret. But more and more true scholarship is coming into its own. As American universities develop greater background they are placing greater emphasis upon intellectual values. The recognition most appreciated by the true student is that which, like the Guggenheim Fellowships, not merely acknowledges past merit but opens the door...
...carefree American tourists, gaining in the halls of pleasure what they had lost on the fields of battle. But on the little side street by the water-front, not far from the Franz-Josef bridge, there were no bright lights. There was only the faint glow from the garret window of a weather-beaten old house, where, working far into the night, a busy scholar was translating Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" into Albanian...
...literary lights of the period. It was not long before Cardinal Richelieu heard of the meetings and, wishing to control the litterateurs as he controlled everybody else, he offered his protection and promised a royal charter to the society. Most of the habitués of Conrart's garret would have preferred to remain free; but it was dangerous to oppose the Cardinal, so they reluctantly were forced to accept the offer of His Eminence. In 1635, letters patent were granted by the King, and the Académie Française came into being...
Dick, so the story goes, was a poor lad who found his way to London and was taken into the service of the merchant Fitzwarren. To rid himself of the mice in his garret-bedroom, he bought a cat for a penny. As it was a custom for all the Fitzwarren servants to send something of their own in their master's ships to make a little money, Dick was virtually forced to send his cat away; but the cat caught rats for a foreign king; and the king paid enormous sums for the cat; and all this money Dick...