Word: pre-elizabethan
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When British Garage Owner Arthur Lindley surveyed the creaking, pre-Elizabethan cottage he owns next door to his gasoline station at Piccott's End near Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, he saw a depressing sight. The wood was moldering, the rooftop sagged, grey plaster was flaking off the old brick walls. Disconsolately tugging at a damp patch of wallpaper in an upstairs bedroom, Lindley got the surprise of his life. A flap of wallpaper six layers thick, backed by linen cloth, tore away, revealing beneath a broad expanse of orange, grey, black, blue and yellow mural. Recalled Lindley...
...Harvard squad spent this afternoon with the big game only two days away, in a brief workout boning, passing, and kicking at grades. Greep, Crimson star in the pre-Elizabethan drama, was getting his long twisters away beautifully, and averaged from 65 to 70 on some of the longer floaters. Coach Hanford, who is, by the way, a booter of no mean ability himself, was not too well satisfied with the star's showing, remarked: "If we were playing the Law School such grades would be acceptable, but things look tough against an aggregation of freebooters like Yale's team...
These Miracle Plays were originally acted in the churches. They were all variations on Biblical themes. As time went on, however, the trade guilds took them over. With no change of subject, but a great deal of improvement in the form, the guild plays gradually, developed into pre-Elizabethan drama. Several groups of these plays have come down...
...Lecture. Pre-Elizabethan Poetry of Scotland. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...
...Lecture. Pre-Elizabethan Poetry of Scotland. Mr. E. Charlton Black. Sever...