Word: replica
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...medieval chronicles just like the living English people he knew, and wrote words for them which often sounded like real talk in spite of being broken up into iambic lines, he was doing what the producers of this cinema have done in their turn. They have created no pedantic replica of Elizabethan comedy, but a vivid, hilarious farce. They have paid Shakespeare the double compliment of using hardly a word that he did not write and of brightening his meaning with new pieces of pantomime that are exactly Elizabethan because they are slapstick. They have translated into exquisite physical imagery...
...complete copies of "King Arthur" is kept in the Widener collection. This book, the only replica of which is in the British Museum, is entitled, in full, "The story of the most noble and worthy Kynge Arthur, the which was the fyrst of the worthyes chrysten, and also of his noble and valyaunt knyghtes of the rounde Tablo." A small folio, olive morocco in color, and with gilt edges, this book is beautifully illustrated in the first portion, with fancy wood-cuts...
...inspected, Edison scuffed the dirt floor with his toe. "Why, Henry's even got that damn New Jersey clay here," he marveled. There later was to be staged the feature performance-Inventor Edison working by oil lamp over his old bench, tinkering with his old tools, fabricating a replica of the first incandescent electric lamp, switching on the current, seeing the wires glow yellow, then shambling over to his old reed organ in the corner to play a few tunes. The tinkering was the climax of the celebration of "Light's Golden Jubilee." At a preceding jubilee dinner...
...mirror's home is a simple wooden temple expressive of primitive simplicity in the sacred groves of Ise, 18 miles from Tokyo. Strict ritualistic cleanliness decrees that every 20 years the mirror shrine must be destroyed, the sacred mirror moved to another shrine, an exact replica, beam for beam, bolt for bolt of the one vacated. Last week, the mirror moved...
...make the play as historically accurate as possible. The fire-engine which is being used in the performance is an exact reproduction of the type manned by the original "Cambridge Catamounts" and shows to good advantage the work which was done by the producers to get the exact replica...