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Abies Irish Rose
Abie's Irish Rose (1922), a comedy by Anne Nichols. [Fulton Theatre, 2,327 perf.] Because of their fathers' strong religious prejudices, Abie Levy ( Robert B. Williams) and Rose Mary Murphy ( Marie Carroll) have been secretly married by a Methodist minister. When Abie first introduces her to... Read more |
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attar of roses
attar of roses , or rose oil, fragrant essential oil obtained from roses and used in making perfume. It is one of the most valuable of the volatile oils. Rose water is water in which a small amount of the oil is dissolved.... Read more |
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Street Scene
Street Scene (1929), a play by Elmer Rice. [Playhouse, 601 perf.; Pulitzer Prize.] A row of old New York brownstones has become a street of tenements housing a wide variety of people. Among them are an Irish couple, Frank ( Robert Kelly) and Anna Maurrant ( Mary Servoss), their daughter, Rose (... Read more |
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Dame Rose Macaulay
Dame Rose Macaulay , 1889?-1958, English author. Remembered primarily for her novels satirizing middle-class life, she first achieved fame with Potterism (1920). Her subsequent novels include Told by an Idiot (1923), Staying with Relations (1930), The World My Wilderness (1950), and The... Read more |
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Terre Haute
Terre Haute , city (1990 pop. 51,483), seat of Vigo co., W Ind., on the Wabash River; inc. 1816. The commercial and trade center of a farm and coal-mining region, its diverse manufactures include foods and beverages, paper and aluminum products, farm and communications equipment, chemicals,... Read more |
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Gustav Rose
ROSE, GUSTAV (b. Berlin, Germany, 18 March 1798; d. Berlin, 15 July 1873) mineralogy, crystallography. Rose Read more |
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Bound in the chains of cash ; The Trader, the Owner, the Slave By James...
...stupid. He was besotted with one Mary Catlett, but had to prove himself...there is Thomas Thistle-wood (1721-1786), a cultured...library of more than 1,000 volumes) and for black flesh. In his...1745-1797), a slave who rose to international prominence... |
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SURROUNDED BY BOOKS
...garden, Louise Wood turns her attention...of how worn the volumes have become...I'm coming, Mary," Louise said...wall of leather-bound titles, she pulled...dimness. Mary Rose, a local book publisher and ... |
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Editor of 'best' admits subjectivity
...such a book is bound to be elitist...naturally each volume reflects personal...as in all volumes in this series...art such as Mary Oliver, Donald...into these volumes, as well as...Kunitz Tending Roses" a ... |
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Students of History - Looking back at 150 years, Malden sees evolution of...
...stretchers out of wood in Mr. Tolman...1915, to a 20-volume set of leather- bound student work presented...Haskell in 1954, Mary Hampton in 1966...Skirt lengths rose, fell, rose again - then finally...like Roe," read ... |
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Night-walk.(Poem)
...Turned up their volume as I neared the...creakings in the wood Made themselves...balladry. --Mary Beaton, and Mary Seaton, and Mary Carmichael and...Winter's invisible roses, the sovereign...proved me homeward ... |
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Peter Holliday, ed. Eric Gill in Ditchling: Four Essays.(Book Review)
...reputation as a sculptor and a wood engraver that complemented...the focus of the current volume of essays which is edited...Ethel (later known as Mary) accompanied him, the...photographs in a cloth-bound album with his hand...Aquinas was uncovered in the ... |
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ESSAYS ON VIETNAM AND THE MIDEAST
...James Books has issued two volumes of poetry by area academics...overdue first collection bound to gladden anybody who...Murphy is rector of St. Mary's Parish in Westbrook, Maine. Esther Wood describes her "Deep Roots...Boston: Lorraine Elena ... |