Word: venetian
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...Jean over the winning warmth of the ghost, as gallant as ever, and the self-conscious timidity of his living image causes no end of mildly uproarious confusion. But the whole mess is neatly resolved when the castle is moved to Florida, and surrounded by a moat containing Venetian gondolas, to give a European atmosphere...
...makes his entrance as a victim of amnesia, whose inability to remember his own name is only less astonishing than the fact that he is driving a big car and appears to have unlimited quantities of $100 bills, which he hides under rugs and between the slats of Venetian blinds. A faint glimmer of self-recognition flickers when a horse he is riding in the effort to find out whether or not he is a renowned polo player throws him into a pond, where he encounters the famed Penner duck. During the commencement exercises at the school which, as anticipated...
...Dickinson was one of the town characters, she found the life pleasantly stimulating, graduated naturally into studying art in Paris. Marriage to Albert White Vorse, a writer with a hobby of arctic exploration, further broadened her horizon. In a winter spent in Italy she saw her first big strike (Venetian gondoliers). It impressed her but hardly got under her skin. Back in the U. S., she and her husband set up a co-operative housekeeping venture in Manhattan with some other young intellectuals called themselves A Club. "Everybody"-from Mark Twain to Theodore Dreiser-used to drop...
...Wainwright Building, of Missouri granite, sandstone, brick and terra cotta, was the world's first skyscraper to be treated artistically for what it really was: a cellular arrangement of business offices. Working in an age of romantic eclecticism when Chicago boasted "an Italo-Byzantine-French-Venetian structure with Norman windows," when no other architect knew what to do with a tall façade except to break down its height with a series of small horizontal units, Louis Sullivan's Wainwright Building, in his own words, was and is "every inch a proud and soaring thing, rising...
Through this organization Mr. Packard was able to contact Edwin Booth Grossman, grandson of the actor. Mr. Grossman had two wax cylinder records, one of Othello's speech to the Venetian senators concerning the wooing of Desdemona, and the other of Hamlet's soliloquy "To be or not to be." Both records take exactly four and a half minutes to play. They were, however, very faint and obscured by much extra noise to such an extent that Mr. Grossman, despaired of ever having them transferred to modern phonograph discs...