Word: reclaiming
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...secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick of Prussia. When de Sarnac comes to arrest him, Voltaire shows him a packet of verses which King Frederick has sent him for corrections, pretends that they contain damaging evidence against de Sarnac. When the King arrives to reclaim Pompadour, de Sarnac admits enough to cause the King to arrest him, pardon Voltaire, restore Pompadour, release Nanette and her captain...
...book is that of the owner once or twice removed. A few weeks ago, a postcard was sent to a student in regard to a book which he had sold at a second-hand bookstore four years ago. In another case, a student who came in to reclaim a lost book, caught sight of another one, which he was anxious to buy. On checking with the apparent owner, it was found that he had sold it to a second-hand bookstore the year before, but he cheerfully agreed to sell it again...
...armies of unemployed encamped in Potomac Park, the President is ready. Under a careful scheme and picked leaders he organizes them into a National Reconstruction Corps, on the Federal payroll. As labor battalions on public works they reclaim land in the West, construct power dams in the Midwest, build highways in the East. Army discipline jacks up the workers' morale. Family allowances deducted from their wages care for their wives and children. So successful is N. R. C. that its principles eventually alter the whole character of U. S. organized labor...
...Surrealiste artist is interested in externalizing the experiences that take place in the remote spaces of consciousness. He attempts to reclaim for painting the regions that lie beyond logic. He is experimenting at the very edge of the expressable and the communicable. Surrealisme has the triple lure of the unexpected, the censurable and the remote; and at its best it is embarrassingly comprehensible...
Toward the end, when he thinks he has failed to make Violet Kemble Cooper love him, M. God doubts himself. He regains his composure, however, by the time the keeper of the lunatic asylum comes to reclaim him. "If God came to earth," shrewdly explains M. God, "where else could he stay?" Left alone for a moment he makes his escape by walking out through the audience...