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Graustark

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[grou-stahrk, graw-] / ˈgraʊ stɑrk, ˈgrɔ- /

noun

  1. a novel (1901) by George Barr McCutcheon about the romantic and melodramatic adventures of military and courtly figures in the fictional kingdom of Graustark.


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Because he thought Elizabethan costumes too archaic to make G.I.s see the play in modern terms, Evans staged Hamlet as though it were played in Graustark.

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This is the first time it has been brought to the screen since 1930, and Graustark has seldom been so charm ingly populated.

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Kraft's version emerged as pure Graustark, with not a Communist in sight.

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Of course, Graustark had never run more than seven furlongs.

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Last week it had been Beverly of Graustark and the same two weeks before that.

From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith

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