Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...like catchers, have to knock homeruns to be noticed and their chances at conspicuous parts come less often than a catcher's turn at bat. Tibbett's homerun in Falstaff earned him a $1,500 bonus from the Metropolitan management and opportunities which, stretching out into four distinct musical fields, combined to make him the most popularly known singer in the U. S. He was given increasingly important roles at the Metropolitan: Amonasro in Aida, Telramund in Lohengrin, Wolfram in Tannhauser, King Eadgar in The King's Henchman, Colonel Ibbetson in Peter Ibbetson, Jonny in Jonny Spielt...
...overshadow all the comments on educational trends. That item reveals indirectly that the House Dining Halls made a large profit last year and that a portion of it, --$40,000.,--was used to finance the measure which gave relief jobs to needy undergraduates. The news will come as a distinct surprise to men who have shared two apparently fallacious beliefs which the administration has made no effort to correct: that the House Dining Halls were to be run on as narrow a margin of profit as possible, and that the money which made the relief possible had come from...
...undergraduate recently went to New York for the express purpose of gathering together as many as possible of the cheapest sort of magazines for sale in the Times Square district. He worked on the theory that the Grub Street products of an age had a distinct place in its literary history. William W. Watt, in his essay on the penny, sixpenny and shilling Gothic stories that persisted long after "Frankenstein" and "The Monk" had passed out of fashion, has proved this unanswerably...
Emerging as it does from the storm of squabblings over graft and machine politics which surround us, a conference held recently at Princeton, N. J., between professors of political science and political leaders, was a distinct relief...
...comedy, in order that audiences at the Globe standing elbow to elbow, should not become unduly restless. "The Late Mr. Christopher Bean" is neither a tragedy nor a comedy: it is a medley of dramatic ingenuities and pure drama which above all, never takes itself seriously It marks a distinct step away from pedantry and formalism, and towards the Anglo-Saxon ideal that the function of drams is to provide a maximum of entertainment, and a minimum of conscious instruction or dogmatic humor...