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Word: erosion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unctuous Robert Warwick appears as a wealthy gentleman who yearns after a lovely virgin (Rose Hobart) but gets instead the wife of one of his friends through her own chicanery in a darkened room. This lady's husband is in turn involved with Mr. Warwick's wife and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 2, 1929 | 12/2/1929 | See Source »

EAST OF MANSION HOUSE - Thomas Burke-Doran ($2). A Cockney urchin once gazed through the musty windows of an old Chinaman's store in the India Dock Road and experienced some-thing unforgettable. Whether it was a glory, a wisdom or a peace passing understanding, the urchin has never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Non-Fiction | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

The first of a series of lectures on Socrates and Plato by Professor Francis M. Comford of Trinity College, Cambridge, was given last night in Hundtington Hall. The lectures, which are to be given every Monday and Wednesday evening, are being sponsored by the Lowell Institute. The subjects of the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classic Series at Lowell | 3/16/1926 | See Source »

It is a far cry from the argumentative symposium of the day of Plato to the scientific expository symposium of today. It has slowly evolved, passing through such intermediate stages as the Literary Club of Samuel Johnson's time. And there has been likewise a great change in the nature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTER THE "SMOKOSIUM" | 3/4/1924 | See Source »

Whether we have put aside the old conviviality of the Greek to good advantage is debatable, but if our discussions are not as profound, they are at least more practical. Plato wrote of Eros; our time discusses water, which, after all, is a more comprehensible and certain subject for all...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENTER THE "SMOKOSIUM" | 3/4/1924 | See Source »

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