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Word: morrises (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the death of Thomas Hardy the chain connecting the Victorian and modern literary worlds is broken, for he was undoubtedly the strongest remaining link. The contemporary of such literary gods as Tennyson, the Brownings, Dickens, Thackeray, Troilope, Charles Reade, Lytton, Rosetti, Morris, Ruskin, Meredith, and Swinburne, his quiet passing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN OLYMPIAN PASSES | 1/13/1928 | See Source »

The tragedy is complete enough but it becomes almost fantastic in its very direct simplicity, for the play is nothing outside of its plot. Yet the play is effective in the way it is intended, for which result the acting is in large measure responsible. Philip Merivale in the part...

Author: By P. H. R., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/12/1928 | See Source »

Officers of the Harvard Dramatic Club for 1928 were elected at a meeting of the club held last night. Charles Leatherbee '29 of New York City was chosen president; Gerald Wallace Harrington '30 of Mattapoisett vice-president, and john Hanna Morris '29 of Cambridge, secretary. Two other men were elected...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARLES LEATHERBEE IS PICKED H.D.C. PRESIDENT | 1/11/1928 | See Source »

Leatherbee, the new president, has played in four of the Dramatic Club's productions and has held leading roles in the last two. Harrington has been in three of the organization's plays and played an important part in the show this fall. Morris, the secretary, has been in charge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHARLES LEATHERBEE IS PICKED H.D.C. PRESIDENT | 1/11/1928 | See Source »

During the week, Governor Smith was called "outstanding Democrat of his day" by Roland Sletor Morris, Wilsonian ambassador to Japan (1917-21), and controller of at least half of Pennsylvania's 76 nominating votes at the Democratic convention.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Smith to the U. S. | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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