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Word: adrip (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Intruder was composed by one Paul Eldridge with the following ingredients: Item: water adrip wears away stone, rain pitpat on roofs often melts morals. Item: since Aesculapius, physicians have seduced, been seduced by nurses. Item: wine stirs passion. In the office of Dr. John Weston was an attendant-nurse. Mrs. Weston spent a rainy night under another roof, the nurse a "beautiful, marvelous" one under the Westons' with the doctor. Six years later Nurse Katy returned to make her child an honest son. Kind words, a tear, a plea softened her wrath, ended the play, dismissed a summer audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Aug. 6, 1928 | 8/6/1928 | See Source »

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