Word: nondescripts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trudged briskly into the library of the Senate, last week. There he demanded one of the obscurer works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The old man's whiskers drooped and his oily skin crinkled in little gleaming lines. His short stature and bulky form were nondescript, commonplace. Yet at the sound of his imperious voice the librarian looked up and started back. The eyes and bearing of M. Georges Eugene Benjamin Adrien Clemenceau have ever compelled instant respect and usually instant obedience...
...Morley, able correspondent of the Baltimore Sun. Mr. Morley described how he had seen a big U. S.-built locomotive, "camouflaged and armored," come steaming into the little station of Ching Lung Chiao in lieu of the regular train to Peking and miraculously almost on time. "Instead of the nondescript trucks and decrepit coaches of the ordinary Chinese 'accommodation,' there was in tow just one caboose-like vehicle, labeled in clear English a ' wrecking car.' And equally in accord with China as she is today were two dirty and smallpox-pitted soldiers of Super-Tuchun Feng lolling in the single...
...Cocoanuts. No musical show this season, with the possible exceptions of the extravagant Sunny and the cherished Chariot's Revue, has excited more blissful anticipation than this return of the Marx Brothers. These four ingenious gentlemen first sprang into magnificent prominence two years ago with a noisy, nondescript and stunningly hilarious adventure called I'll Say She Is. Whereupon Irving Berlin gathered them unto himself and agreed to write music for their next show; George S. Kaufman (Merton; Beggar on Horseback; The Butter and Egg Man) was summoned to write the book; and producer Sam H. Harris released...
...four o'clock of a dull afternoon last month, a Lincoln motor ear waited outside the office door of the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Some nondescript fellows who were arriving in twos and threes at the same door glanced at their watches and then, nervously, at the big car where it crouched beside the curb, glittering in the grey air as if its glass and brass and nickel work were lit with a secret sunlight. For whom was it waiting...
This year there are 18,200 students in the medical colleges, of whom 17,652 are in the regular medical colleges, 410 in the two homeopathic colleges, 148 in the one eclectic school. There remain three nondescript colleges, of which two are mixed up with osteopathy and the third is disowned by the National Eclectic Medical Association although claiming to be eclectic in character...