Word: urn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basil Wright's extraordinarily beautiful Song of Ceylon, made for a British tea association. The film bears about the same relation to ordinary travelogues that Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn bears to a cheap pottery catalogue...
...play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather than sentiment, for showing how precocious children and posturing stagefolk dramatize situations. The child sees her father slain by the Other Man; Sophie visualizes her husband's ashes brought to her, by his former mistress, in a silver urn. Then the husband really enters and the story is resolved...
Arthur Adams '99, who died during the past year, was secretary of his class for 44 years; the silver was presented by his classmates to the University. The Georgian pieces include a large urn and two smaller salt dishes, which will be kept in Adams House on display...
Most exciting moment occurred Monday evening when late diners and hangers-on at the mess hall were privileged to witness the geyser of water which burst forth from the starboard coffee urn.... A loud cheer went up in admiration of Miss Opal Bowers, of the Cowie Hall staff, who, heedless of losing that new curl, rushed into the torrential shower and closed the offending valve...
Bravo, Miss. Bowers, and a sincere hope that for your sake, the water-tight integrity of the urn will not again break down... Welcome to the new class of Specialists... and Congratulations to those who were directed by the recent Alnav to add new stripes