Word: procrustean
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been with the family so long that she has become, not a servant, but a retainer, fairly runs away with the show. The other, Frank Owens, nee Fleming Ward, adds the other true touch by playing the victim in the fight scene an inevitable scene in Grant Mitchell's procrustean and as such reappearing on the stage to explain how it all happened, at the same time spraying the footlights with loosened teeth...
...have come round to the ballad. We cannot, and do not wish to, escape. Mr. Benet may brood over the sonnet (there are 16 in the book), but it will only flicker; it will not shine. For the sonnet's Procrustean tyranny will brook no revolt: the breather of cadences is either stretched or beheaded--both equally painful...