Word: out-of-the-way
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...done to get the undergraduate out of the local excavations. His mail stated that no remarks about such commonplaces as New York Night Clubs, Wanderings amid the Widener Turnstiles and such ilk would be tolerated. The letter expressly stated that this column should discuss "Quaint, Quotable, and Out-of-the-Way Spots Having an Aura of Originality...
...have Signor Benito Mussolini call upon her at her out-of-the-way little part-of-a-palace; to have him stay nearly an hour and quite unbend; to have him say gallant, flattering things and laugh his infectious laugh-such not long ago was the reward of a U. S. widow, Mrs. Henriette Tower Wurts, when she gave her sumptuous, ancient Roman gardens to the City of Rome and threw in $50,000 for perpetual upkeep. She received the double reward last week of an invitation to Edda Mussolini's wedding...
Henri's father, whom he always disliked and later spoke of usually as "the bastard," was a royalist who escaped the fury of the French Revolution only because he was a citizen of out-of-the-way Grenoble. There Henri was born in 1783, and naturally grew up as a republican, to pique his father. He was difficult, even as a child. When told to kiss the plump cheek of a grown-up female relative, he bit it. His mother's death, when he was 5, plunged him into despair and atheism. His only childhood friend...
...addition to these out-of-the-way places, the film was shown in many American towns and cities, large and small, wherever a group of Harvard men, or a Club, asked to have it sent to them. This coming year the film will continue to visit audiences of alumni...
...detoured over Santander, Spain, to salute King Alfonso and Queen Victoria. This detour was a prudent courtesy, because Spain is planning a dirigible hangar at Seville, which will be useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg, retired Mount Vernon, N. Y., businessman, had smoked a cigar in the ship's lavatory. One spark might have blown up her hydrogen lifting gas. Some of the other passengers wanted Passenger Hogg imprisoned. Capt. Lehmann only reprimanded...