Word: distinctiveness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...impossible to deny that this is an extremely biased book, but it is from this fact that it derives its principal merit. Even though the light in which events and facts are shown is always entirely unfavorable to France, the book has a distinct interpretative value for the student; to the layman there is always the shadow of an impartial truth in Signer Nitti's most fiery denunciations. His Francophobia must, however, always be borne in mind...
...22nd Annual International Exhibition of paintings at Carnegie Institute honored: first, Arthur B. Davies, of New York; second, Eugene Speicher, of New York; third, Pierre Bonnard, of Paris. All three are distinct modernists...
Trade continued to expand, although money rates and retail prices proved stable. Production figures in several basic industries established new records and a distinct advance in wages was witnessed. But the speculative market for securities and staple commodities proved quiescent, with the declining tendency. No clear signs of general inflation are yet apparent and business men in general are exercising an admirable caution in regard to the future...
...last Symphony Hall concert of the Harvard Glee Club was a distinct success. For the second time Frieda Hempel was the assisting artist. Her selections, with the exception of an aria from "Der Freischutz", were purely romantic--full of sentiment, even sentimentality. Yet as sung by Miss Hempel these songs were ever a delight; especially so her rendering of the Swiss "Canari Jaloux", and a "Lullaby" by Humperdinck...
After Miss Hempel's second group of songs, the Glee Club sang "The House among the Trees" by Edward Ballantine of the Music Department. With words by J. L. McLane '22, Mr. Ballantine has achieved a distinct success in this extremely melodious dream-song...