Word: commonality
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Reading in TIME, March 7, under EDUCATION the account of that Oxford "Rag" which was the most successful and which resulted in the rather unassailable installation of a common porcelain toilet article upon the topmost pinnacle of a memorial spire, I was immediately struck with the thought that this article in porcelain would be most brittle, and a righteous and easy target for the authorities as well as a tempting one for anybody else, and therefore most certainly not out of reach as your narrative would have...
...Zedlitz-Triitzschler made curious entries in his diary: "Suddenly Count Hiilsen-Haeseler appeared, dressed as a ballerina (as he had done once or twice before) and began to dance. Everyone was vastly delighted, for the Count's dancing is superb, and there was something quite out of the common in seeing the Chief of the Military Cabinet, got up as a woman, perform a pas-seul...
...Roman Catholic dogma of the ' Immaculate Conception" (of Mary) was defined as "of faith" as late as 1854 by Pope Pius IX in the Papal Bull "Ineffabilis Deus." It maintains that, while Mary was conceived in the manner common to all human beings, the Lord made her immaculate at the moment of conception; in this way her absolute sinlessness was provided...
Clarence Walker Barron, editor: "This item appeared in my Barron's Weekly, financial newspaper, last week: 'Bewhiskered men in the financial district are not common. Some favor the mustache, but few go in for beards. George F. Baker, dean of the American banking field, is entitled to the honor of maintaining the dignity of bankers for he boasts a full-fledged beard, while the dignified whiskers of C. W. Barron, dean of the American financial news field, are known in Europe and Asia as well as the United States and Canada. Another internationally known individual whose consumption...
Last week the Metropolitan Museum of Art bought John Singer Sargent's large portrait which he called "The Wyndham Sisters," but, since it was gravely named by King Edward VII when he first saw it, "The Three Graces," that remains its common title. The price is supposed to have been nearly $100,000, drawn, from a fund whose name the directors refused to divulge, but very likely the Hearn Fund...