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Word: tenuousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...curious antiques who make their living from the antique curiosities. His parents object because nobody in Philadelphia has ever heard of the Tweedles; and her parents object, even more strongly, because no one in Maine has ever heard of the Castleburys. The solution of this dilemma seems tenuous to the point of ineptitude?yet still surprisingly diverting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Aug. 20, 1923 | 8/20/1923 | See Source »

...Whit manifestly not Chinese: but they are the stuff of poetry. Mr. R. C. Rogers in his "Sonnet" fingers an incoherent loveliness. The octave speaks of "chords that bind", an unfortunate ambiguity; the sestet hovers momentaly on the threshold of beauty; but the poem as a whole is tenuous and inarticulate. The "Winter Night's Spell" of Mr. Best plucks an old lute. We cannot help wishing there were more lines like these...

Author: By Joseph LEITER ., | Title: REVIEWER FINDS LATEST NUMBER OF ADVOCATE LIVELY | 3/7/1921 | See Source »

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