Word: elizabethan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expect that he would be anything but "regular." Before he got to Harrisburg, the only public office he had ever held was the solicitorship of his native Carnegie, a Pittsburgh suburb. Besides practicing law, he wildcatted for oil with moderate success. On the side, he liked to read Elizabethan poetry...
...trying to reconstruct the original Elizabethan stage," Kilty disclosed, "and as a result, 'Richard II' will be our most ambitious undertaking...
...long time the Dramatic Club, and more recently the Theater Workshop, have been struggling with Sanders' physical layout. The stage itself meets the requirements of Elizabethan drama, and impressionist plays like "Our Town," where any hare platform will do. The choice of plays has often revolved on the problem of what can be done with poor old 16th century Sanders. In some cases, a whack at a play that is neither impressionist nor Elizabethan has produced ingenious efforts at staging the near impossible, but for the most part, the Sanders stage lias severely limited the selection of material...
...pulled an A in Elizabethan literature, but he wasn't much of a student. One thing he did enjoy was rowing. His crew was good enough to row at Poughkeepsie; but his career as an oarsman ended abruptly when he hurt his spine...
...restricted merchants to eleven compact areas, built them shopping centers (against rent and a percentage of gross receipts) in Spanish, Elizabethan and Colonial styles. Home builders got a choice of one of three areas (large, medium-sized or small houses), where each could build a house according to his own pocket-book-and Nichols' choice of architecture...