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Word: brooked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Brook. This offering is described in the exterior electric illumination as an "unusual love play." This is only one-third descriptive; the event concerns love?but it is hardly a play and it is quite slavishly usual. It demonstrates in three acts that primitive love is more directly appealing than the civilized version...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 27, 1923 | 8/27/1923 | See Source »

...Sidhe, the Bear without Bristles. Uncle White Seagull and the rest of the melancholy paraphernalia of minor Irish bards. It is evident that the author has read James Stephens, but he has his own individual way of speaking, clear, fresh and cool as the sound of a country brook. Poems for even a reviewer to keep and reread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Good Books: Jun. 11, 1923 | 6/11/1923 | See Source »

...Yale star, was leading in the final leg of the race until Connolly of Georgetown came from behind in the last 50 yards and crossed the finished a winner by a small margin. The time for the distance was 8 minutes 3 8-10 seconds, a new Meadow-brook record, but 8 seconds slower than the indoor record which is held by the University of Pennsylvania...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON ENTRIES FAIL AT MEADOWBROOK GAMES | 3/12/1923 | See Source »

West End House: J. P. Brook house '25, B. P. Day '25, D. B. Durand '25, J. W. Knedler Jr. '24, T. H. Malmed '25, R. C. Rothenberg '24, W. N. Steinam...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SOCIAL SERVICE WORKERS FOR 1921-22 NUMBER 384 | 5/16/1922 | See Source »

...have come round to the ballad. We cannot, and do not wish to, escape. Mr. Benet may brood over the sonnet (there are 16 in the book), but it will only flicker; it will not shine. For the sonnet's Procrustean tyranny will brook no revolt: the breather of cadences is either stretched or beheaded--both equally painful...

Author: By Jospeit Auslandeh, | Title: STEPHEN VINCENT BENET: BALLADIST | 1/14/1921 | See Source »

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