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Graustark

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[grau-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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The principality of Neuberg is just two blocks to the right from Ruritania and around the corner from Graustark.

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

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Despite the subtle services of Alice Brady, making her Guild debut, and of Otto Kruger and Frank Conroy, the weird passion of Karl and Anna remains fabulous, as insubstantial as the fictions 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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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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