Word: skies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...college;" said our interpreter. And sure enough, as we rounded the shoulder of a low hill, we caught sight of a group of buildings in the distance before us, standing on high ground, surrounded by a high wall, and silhouetted against the sky. As we drew nearer, we could see signs of what the buildings had suffered, during the Turkish bombardment, when the French held the college as a fortress. The north wall of one building had a place as large as a room blown out of it. On another building the windows met, because the intervening wall had been...
...crashing through water as black as black marble because it's so deep, and you sit in the fore-chains day after day, and see the sun rise almost afraid because the sea's so lonely. . . . And there are noises under the sea, and sounds overhead in a clear sky. Then you find your island alive with hot, moist orchids that make months at you and can do everything except talk. There's a waterfall in it three hundred feet high, just like a sliver of green jade laced with silver; and millions of wild bees live...
...only in the eyes of the European missionary is man ever vile. Melville, perhaps, discovered to literature a whole new demesne for the imagination to conjure with. Charles. Warren Stoddard bore his testimony to the passing of a Polynesian paradise; Robert Louis Stevenson died "under the wide and starry sky" where he passed his latter days; Jack London, Safroni Middleton, Rupert Brooke, paid tribute each in his own specie; Paul Gauguin painting and drinking absinthe to the end, seeking relief from constant paint in drugs, limned the pagan folk of "Bloody Hiva-oa" for all the world, and lies...
...effects. Besides the prelude and its shadowgraphic representations, the stage setting in the second act is worthy of special mention. It is not often that one can find in New York such a romantic spot as is afforded by John Leighton's rooms on the top floor of a sky-scraper, overlooking, as it does, by night, the glaring lights of Broadway...
...winning model gives a striking silhouette of the characters, who are grouped about the summit of a hill from behind which a flood-light effectively blends soft yellow, blue and violet rays, while one bright star shines brightly in the sky. The simplicity of the design well fits the spirit of the play for which it is intended--"The Mystery of the King's Berth," a one-act Christmas mystery by Adair Archer '17, formerly of the Workshop...