Word: rot
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first of the Catholic Club's series of public lectures will be given this evening in the lecture room of the Fogg Museum by Rev. John Talbot Smith of New York. His subject will be "Dry Rot in Literature; the influence on modern literature of the three philosophical errors, Agnosticism, Naturalism and Pessimism." The lecture is at 8 and is open to all members of the University...
...Harvard Catholic Club. Dry Rot in Literature. Am explanation of the influence on modern literature of three philosophical errors: agnosticism naturalism, and pessimism. Rev. J. T. Smith, of New York. Lecture Room of the Fogg Museum...
YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and ere they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...
YOUR winter clothes hang up in rows, in sad, defenceless fashion; while on these clothes voracious moths indulge their ruling passion. What wicked waste! Why not make haste-in manner most rococo-and are they rot, sell out the lot to Barney Bennett-Poco? The order box for the elite, in Marks's shop-6 Holyoke street...
...fiction of the number as a whole is best characterized, to quote Professor Wendell, as 'well-meaning and thoroughly amiable rot.' Under this classification, the first of the 'Two Sketches' is preeminent. The second is not bad, until one comes to the last paragraph. Up to this point there is a change of its being good but the effect is entirely thrown away out of the hasty and unartistic ending. The same fault is to be found with, 'A Disgrace to His Profession'; the last sentence is too tame but the rest of the story is good. The mucker-talk...