Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pianist Paderewski who won the sympathy of Woodrow Wilson and other Allied leaders. In 1920 when Marshal Pilsudski was at war with Russia in an attempt to drive Soviet troops from East Galicia, and found his troops beaten at every turn, it was the French military mission, and in particular Marshal Foch's favorite, dapper little General Maxime Weygand, that turned the Bolsheviks from the gates of Warsaw in one of the decisive battles of modern times. Later in Warsaw he became intimate with two men destined to go far, Relief Administrator Herbert Hoover, and Mgr. Achille Ratti...
Kramer issued the following statement last night: "Here is a chance for college students to do something toward building sane, democratic public opinion by registering our disapproval of Mr. Hearst's particular brand of Yahooism. To those who feel that the same objections apply to other newsreels, we can only say that beginning must be made, and that the others may profit by this example...
...illuminated manuscripts and old master drawings that have just come to the Fogg as a special loan from the J. P. Morgan Library make the most important exhibition that the Museum has had in the last two seasons. The manuscripts in particular are so valuable that, except at the New York Library, they have never been shown before. The twenty-eight books and many separate pages, rich with color and gold, some as old as the ninth century, contrast vividly with the twenty original drawings from Perugino to Watteau. Yet they combine together in presenting an unusual survey...
...three days ago this whole question was resurrected from the grave of innocuous desuetude by a waitress, new to the particular dinning hall, who rashly said a pleasant "Yes, Sir" to the orders of the students, and "You're welcome" to their startled thanks. While she did not make an epochal innovation, still she sounded a note foreign to this great country where people run up escalators, and are all too used to gulping hamburgers thrown at them with bombshell velocity at quick lunches and "one-arm joints...
...rest of the contents are more or less stereotyped although the collaring, of the states maps in particular, is carefully arranged to make reading easy and to, avoid confusion. The one mistake seems to be that the compound maps showing currents and altitudes are too complicated to be properly legible but that can be overlooked in the excellence of the rest of the work...