Word: drearier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From now on Harvard is likely to figure in the police news every few hours. As the strain of examinations lifts more and more men annually ape the antics of the monk of Siberia whose prospects grew drearier until he burst from his cell with a loud scream. Already reports are drifting in from the expeditions of the more original freedmen. A pair of enterprising Martin Johnsons have gone on a pigeon hunt along the streets of Boston and Cambridge, popping at their feathered friends in the eaves of prominent buildings of the town with small damage to the birds...
Miss Barrymore, of course, simply picks the play up and juggles it with all her amazing virtuosity. It provides her with a typically Barrymore part. Hers is a personality which makes irresistible and inimitable seem weakling and inexpressive adjectives. America would be a far drearier land without...