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Word: bask (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...interested, Mr. Jewett asked to report to his theatre on Huntington Avenue, near Massachusetts Avenue, at 7 o'clock tonight. The pilgrims who reach the Jerusalem of the casting manager's approval, will be allowed to bask in the radiated glory of Miss Braggiott; no less than eight times a week: six times in the evening and on the afternoons of Thursday and Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salome Seeks Psalm Singers at Harvard--25 Sack Cloth and Ash Men Wanted for Two Weeks Pilgrimage in Boston | 10/8/1926 | See Source »

What's in a name? Nothing, until it's famous. What's in a title? Many things, whether you inherit it, buy it, invent it, or only bask in its resplendence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Arbiters | 2/22/1926 | See Source »

...Enter to grow in Wisdom'! Come, Blunderbrats and Wild Asses Bask in the beams from learning's light And be culturally sunburned, if you can't be tanned...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Saul Missed but Dunton Succeeds as "Wild Asses" Invokes Its Readers to Be "Culturally Sunburned" if Not "Tanned" | 1/31/1925 | See Source »

...analytic mind, the first enquiry will be, was it strategy that placed the gentle Emerson so near this spelling that it might bask in his calm effulgence? He was a little radical in some things and boldly said that if we had no Greek or Latin, then we should read the ancients with a trot, though he expressed it a little differently. But what he would have said about these quick-lunch spellings is not so certain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 12/6/1924 | See Source »

...Rustle of Silk. Better than average acting is dissipated in the weakly wandering film from Cosmo Hamilton's novel. Betty Compson, Conway Tearle, Anna Nilsson, and Cyril Chadwick are asked to convince the customers that a girl will become a lady's maid simply to bask in the presence of her beloved-the lady's husband. Their love fuses. Finally, the hero becomes Prime Minister. There are flashbacks of Watteau shepherdesses and a few shootings. Out of the conglomerate mass it is possible that there are two or three selected bits which will appeal to everyone. Possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures May 12, 1923 | 5/12/1923 | See Source »

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