Word: particularities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...merely mention these points in order to show you that the particular article to which you draw attention is, for the most part, ludicrously untrue...
...apiece, gave one South Carolina bond to a friend who prom-ised to split any profits he might make on a mysterious sale. A month later Smythe received a check for $400. He lost no time in writing to the Treasurer of South Carolina, who informed him that that particular bond had been redeemable for $1,200. Then & there Floorman Smythe decided that such incidents should not be left to chance...
Apparently there was no particular reason why the Rockefeller Stock Exchange seat went to Son Laurance except that he seems to be his father's general understudy. As long as the seat was to remain in the family, it had to be transferred to one of them, and Son, Laurance was picked. Asked what Son Laurance expected to do with it, a Rockefeller associate declared: "He doesn't know himself...
...said, "Good morning!" This was Jean Piccard, stratosphere balloonist, twin brother of Balloonist Auguste Piccard. Once a chemist for Hercules Powder Co., Jean Piccard is now in the aeronautical engineering department of the University of Minnesota, usually manages _ to find advertisers who will pay for his flights. This particular morning he made a landing of sorts after a flight sponsored by the Rochester Kiwanis Club in a unique apparatus...
...this particular morning Artist Woolf arrived at a Senator's office promptly at 9 a. m. as agreed. The Senator wearing a white suit came in at 9:30, apologized for being late. They joked about the weather, arranged chairs to get the right light. Artist Woolf squinted through his horn-rimmed glasses, went to work while the Senator first smoked, then chewed a cigar. Looking down on them was a large oil painting of the Senator's wife dressed in blue; scattered around the walls were some WPA art works...