Word: screens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SCENE: A room in an Intelligence Office. Blind screen in centre, on one side of which Superintendent is seated at desk. Enter Miss Daisy Chizzlehurst. Superintendent rises and curtsies...
...With reminiscences of her millinery days]. - I have the very thing you wish, I am sure, - a very superior article, mum. If you'll kindly be seated for a moment, mum, I'll send him up. [Exit Mrs. F. Miss C. sits down with back to screen, and takes up a book to read...
...brought in fresh branches, and made a bed on the floor of the cave. With two broad leafy boughs, he made, as it were, curtains for the door, which should screen Tue from the fire, but not cut her off from its heat. Tue watched him, as he made all these arrangements for her comfort, with a feeling in which alarm was tempered by a strange complacency...
...wish to disparage the highly moral nature of Cambridge people in general, we cannot forget that there is a mischievous and malicious spirit present in every community. Therefore we can consistently ask if the College acts wisely in not protecting the Memorial Hall windows by a wire screen of some sort? As they now stand, a stone from the hand of a "Port Mucker," or from that of an inebriated Freshman, might cause several hundred dollars' damage, and put the University to great inconvenience as well, while the offender would be in little danger of detection...