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curtain-lecture
ˈcurtain-ˈlecture ‘A reproof given by a wife to her husband in bed’ (Johnson).1633 T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter ii. 5 Often have you heard how much a superstitious wife, by her curtain lectures, hath wrought upon her Christian husband. 1660 Hickeringill Jamaica (1661) 85, I am not awed..with the dreadfull ...
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John Westcott
He was the first to lecture on the new field of cybernetics in Britain and was a member of the Ratio Club with Grey Walter, Alan Turing, Giles Brindley founder-member in 1957 of the International Federation of Automatic Control, one of the first professional bodies to liaise successfully across the Iron Curtain
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curtain-sermon
† ˈcurtain-ˈsermon Obs. = curtain-lecture.1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xv. §44 The Curtaine-Sermons nightly enlarged vpon the same Text. 1621–51 Burton Anat. Mel. iii. iii. iv. ii. 629. 1631 R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature xv. §2. 255 He heares Curtaine..Sermons, ere the Morning.
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Barbara Lattimer Krader
In 1985, she was the first woman to give the Charles Seeger Memorial Lecture to the annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, when she gave a Under the difficult conditions of the Cold War, she was recognized for her efforts to maintain contacts between music scholars on both sides of the Iron Curtain
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curtain
▪ I. curtain, n.1 (ˈkɜːtɪn, -t(ə)n) Forms: 4–6 cortyn(e, -eyn(e, courtyn(e, -ein(e, -ayn, curtyn(e, -ein(e, -eyn(e, -ayn(e, 4–7 courtin(e, curten, -ine, 4–8 cortine, curtin, (4 couertine, 5 quirtayn, 5– 6 courting), 6 cortaine, -ayne, (curteynge, cowrtyng), 6–8 courtain(e, 7–8 curtaine, 4, 7– curtai...
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Frederick D. Sulcer
The agency borrowed a live tiger from the zoo which remained behind a large curtain while they presented the campaign idea to gasoline executives; at the end of the presentation, they opened the curtain to reveal the tiger.
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Frances Colquhoun
She had a lot of sympathy with suffers of the Iron Curtain, and after listening to Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Nobel Prize lecture entitled "One Word of Truth
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lecture
▪ I. lecture, n. (ˈlɛktʃə(r)) Also 5 letture, 6 lectour, -tur, 6–7 lector. [ad. L. lectūra, f. lect-, legĕre to read: see -ure. Cf. F. lecture.] 1. The action of reading, perusal; also fig. Also, that which is read or perused. arch.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. viii. x. (1495) 311 He dysposyth a man a...
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T.K. Thorne
Thorne has served as faculty at several writers' conferences and spoken on lecture circuits (including Columbus State University, Colgate University and Chance for Justice: How Relentless Investigators Uncovered New Evidence Convicting the Birmingham Church Bombers (Lawrence Books, 2013)
Behind the Magic Curtain
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Elitch Theatre
Representatives from the group gave a lecture at the Elitch Theatre about theatre grand drapes and curtains. The curtain was displayed on the backstage theatre floor for lecture attendees to view.
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Kanika Dewan
In 2012 she opened the Iron Curtain restaurant in New Delhi, which was home to an area to screen films. In 2015 she gave the keynote lecture at Innovation Dubai. She was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2016.
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Cinestudio
Cinestudio features a spectacular gold Austrian screen curtain that rises at every show, real balcony seating, and the gold lion courant insignia. The students converted a large lecture hall in the college's Clement Chemistry Building on the Long Walk quad into a recreation of a 1930s film house.
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The Willow Pattern
MacQueen-Pope commented, concerning such curtain raisers:
This was a one-act play, seen only by the early comers. Ping-Pong – "Come, listen to a lecture"
4. Finale – "Join the merry throng"
5a. Intermezzo
5b. Ping-Pong – "Creepy, crawly, crawl and creep"
5c.
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Hallidie Building
Though credited as the first American building to feature glass curtain walls, it was in fact predated by Louis Curtiss's Boley Clothing Company building offices in the Hallidie Building and is renovating the concrete street-level retail space, which predates the rest of the building, to add a gallery, lecture
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The Lecture of Emile Verhaeren
The Lecture of Emile Verhaeren is an oil on canvas painting by Belgian painter Théo van Rysselberghe. Another filled bookcase appears at the other end of the painting, which is closed off by a curtain that partially covers its bookshelves.
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