Word: woodland
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...production the play is to be staged as Moliere himself produced it: There will be but one stage setting throughout and this will represent three different scenes at different times. At the right and left are the houses of Sganarelle and Geronte respectively, and at the back centre a woodland scene. According, then, as the actors enter from the back or from one of the houses, the scene will be the woods, or the interior of one of the houses. This stage setting, as has recently been discovered, was made necessary by the technical rules which governed French dramatists...
...colony of Virginia was along the coast and the avenues of trade were the many salt water estuaries and small streams. These conveniences hindered growth of good roads and aided isolation. The colony was divided into counties, hundreds or cities. The latter name was given to tracts of woodland much as it is given to communities in the West at the present day. However, all these different divisions were regarded in the light of boroughs, as is shown by the name, House of Burgesses, being given to the general assembly...
...clock last night the eleven, coaches and substitutes went to Lee's Woodland Park Hotel, Auburndale, in a barge. The following men were in the party: C. Brewer, Cabot, Wrightington, N. Shaw, F. Shaw, Holt, Donald, Haughton, Newell, Hayes, Rice, Moulton, Borden, Beale, Hamlen, Doucette, Gould, Brown, Dunlop...
...week before the Princeton game, the coaches decided that it would be an advantage to get the men away from all the football talk and gossip of Cambridge, and help them to escape the numerous friends and acquaintances who clamor for news of the team's progress. Lee's Woodland Park Hotel at Auburndale was selected as the place and here the men will spend their nights up to the time of the Yale game. As they will all be under one roof the work of talking over plays and discussing the plans for the game will of course...