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Word: rowse (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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The casual visitor from Wichita or Waltham looks with ill concealed dismay upon the luxurious peace of the Farnsworth Room. To think that mere students should enjoy such cushioned learning fills his heart with envy at the mightiness of things. Jaundiced he turns from the rows of glittering vellum and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUCH A FARNSWORTH! | 10/20/1925 | See Source »

Seated in the last row of the darkened theatre back of the rows of empty seats and facing the lighted stage on which the afternoon rehearsal had just been held, Glenn Hunter, star of "Young Woodley", which opened last. Monday night at the Hollis Theatre in Boston, spoke rapidly and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GLENN HUNTER DEPLORES STUPIDITY OF AUDIENCES | 10/8/1925 | See Source »

In the steeple of the Park Avenue Baptist Church a man was capering in frenzied activity, engaged with two rows of levers. A maze of bright wires from the levers ran up into the bell tower, where hung a newly installed carillon, gift of John D. Rockefeller Jr. The carilloneur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Carillon | 10/5/1925 | See Source »

When Constantinople was under Allied control, the English were perpetually in a row with the French, the French with the Italians, the Italians with the defeated Turks. When the rows became serious Admiral Bristol settled them.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Famed Bristol | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

But he can not wait forever. And, unfortunately for him, there is a double exposure that blots him out of the picture. One night he creeps into the dark room where Gita is developing her image of Surgeon Geoffrey Pelham. Eustace falls back on the fallacy that passion breeds passion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ductless Patter* | 9/14/1925 | See Source »

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