Word: meadow
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatre, a special ensemble, a special audience, a special period of time consecrated to their comprehension. To bring about possible conditions, he conceived the idea of building a theatre, specially dedicated to such productions as The Ring. He would build it of cheap boards, slap it up in a meadow, invite his artists and his audience, "and when all was ready, I would give three performances of Siegfried in one week; after the third the theatre would be pulled down and my score burned. To those who were pleased with it, I would say: 'There, go and do likewise...
...portrait of Francesco Sassetti (banking partner of de Medici) and his son, seen in his bank at Lyons, against a background of harbor and water front; a Titian representing the Madonna and Infant Christ; Piero di Cosimo's picture of Hylas, Hercules' favorite, discovered in a meadow by water nymphs...
...Meadow-peak"-the mountain with a meadow at its base...
...until it hurt but who nearly drove them insane with fuss-budgeting, shilly-shallying, dibble-dabbling, microscopic solicitude and spiritual myopia. As the young authors-to-be grew up, quick-witted, sensitive, gay, they must have talked together for hours about these people and their plight - perhaps in a meadow like the dewy one in their book Knee-High to aGrasshopper - and been consumed by that uncomfortable emotion which is a mixture of furious exasperation and profound pity. They must have compacted to make a united effort some day to sting, poke, wheedle, pat and charm all such people...
...father owned his farm of about 250 acres of woodland hills, pasture and meadow lands. He had, I suppose, about 60 or 70 acres of tillable land. He kept, when I was a boy, five or six cows, a yoke of oxen, ten or a dozen head of young cattle, including calves, two or three horses and sometimes 200 sheep, and of course hens, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigs. As I was the only boy in our family, you can perhaps imagine how busy I could be. ... It was my job to feed and water the horses and clean...