Word: poring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Latin Comedy on the plays of Ben Jonson. I vastly prefer Iowa, where you can get at least an A. M. for a first rate job of stage production. I think it is a good deal more important today to develop a Ben Jonson of our own than to pore endlessly over the works of one dead three hundred years. Certainly Broadway this past winter has borne heartening testimony to the fact that many American Universities think so, even if Harvard doesn...
Grosseteste was a man of supreme courage violent temper and prone to indiscretion. Yet he was one of the strongest of the reformers within the Church itself, pointing out fearlessly wherein its defects lay even to the extent of laving before Pore Innocent IV and the cardinals a written memorial in which he ascribed all the evils of the church to the malignant influence of the Curia, and violently opposing Rome when I came into conflict with the national clergy...
...pore benighted 'eathen but a first-class fightin...
...Beef casserole? Braised pork? More likely, old dependable ham and eggs. They are too familiar to cause your palate much excitement, but as some one has said, they satisfy. Passing the newsstand, if your appetite for fiction is not to be trifled with by a mere magazine, do you pore over cryptic titles, flashy jackets, alluring blurbs? Hardly ever. Briskly, confidently, you seize an Oppenheim or a Dell, a Harry Leon Wilson, Sabatini, Irvin Cobb, Wallace Irwin, Arthur Train?not ham and eggs but just as reliable. A lot of fiction writers remain standard commodities whether you carry them...