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Word: drole (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shaw's rationale, his passionate plea, his drole cajolery, will do much to arouse that will-to-equality, and even more to stimulate women, and their men, toward intelligent consideration of some solution, whether it be socialism, or some other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Not Red | 6/18/1928 | See Source »

...announcement of this year's Sears Prize ought to stimulate new interest is debating as an important means of self-culture which, after all, is simply education in its true sense. It may seem drole to, suggest that the advent of radio is a reason for renewed interest in debating. Yet, with the new importance of the spoken word which radio has promoted, it is quite likely that forensic ability may return to something of its former glory as revealed in a Demosthenes, an Edmund Burke or a Daniel Webster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STUDENT FORUM | 2/17/1925 | See Source »

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