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Word: chocking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1931-1931
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...cost of building having fallen, a prudent corporation is talking of putting up the memorial chapel. Some of the children are bawling in the college papers with that zeal which sounds so funny to their elders, long vaccinated against any excess of that quality. Cambridge and Boston are chock full of churches. What's the use of building a church where nobody wants to go? A building with some athletic object, an infirmary for the martyrs of sport, would be laudable. But a church? Who goes to church? Religion is played out. So the infants bleat, trying to make somebody...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Signs of the Times | 3/16/1931 | See Source »

Green Grow the Lilacs is a folk-play whose elements are a good deal more folk than play. Because Playwright Lynn Riggs (Roadside) is a poet rather than a dramatist, his pithy piece is chock full of fine, salty dialog, but the dramatic structure is very slim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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