Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every 1,000 francs a Capitalist spends on his ticket, the Reds figured, he will enjoy some 1,200 francs worth of superluxury food, transportation and accommodation on the Normandie-"charity to the rich" contributed by French taxpayers who meet the French Line's deficits. Last week this peculiar situation was grappled with firmly by New-dealing French Premier Pierre Etienne Flandin, a veteran transatlantic traveler who knows the value of sea prestige. On his order the Normandie wall be classed virtually as a naval unit among possessions of the State under a bill last week submitted...
There are, also, several clubs of Eliot House origin. The History Club holds meetings, open to all students, whenever it is possible to procure an authority on some subject of current interest. The Photographic Club has its dark room in the basement. Also, of course, organizations beside those peculiar to Eliot House meet from time to time in the Common rooms. The annual dances, although few in number, have been great successes, especially those coming after the Yale (or Princeton) football games and the annual Spring Dance...
...takes Back Bay residents to think up peculiar meals, though. Country folks have faith in fresh air and quantity to keep their dogs healthy, but poodle owners in the city devise meals calling for proportions in ounces, with dishes like lamb hearts, "limited milk," haliveroil, and special oven dried crumbs to maintain the morale and health of their pets...
Nobody has yet been accused of murdering Corpse No. 1, a peculiar feature of the case being that Fleet Street publishers are pestered by a man who insists: "They found the letters F O R D on the brown paper around the torso, didn't they? Well my name is OFFORD and I've been in the white slave game, see? I'm not afraid of Sir Bernard Spilsbury or Scotland Yard. They'll never find out who that woman was, see? And they can't touch me until they identify...
...this peculiar scarlet emphasis by Der Reichsführer upon his refusal of mercy to two women? In an effort to explain, an excited editor of the New York Daily News conjectured that evidently Adolf Hitler is no "pervert like some of his pals but . . . he is merely a neuter-a being who is apparently devoid of any sex feelings at all. . . . Hitler didn't execute the alleged head of this particular spy plot, the Polish Baron Sosnowski. . . . He was simply afraid to do that, in view of reprisals that would surely be taken in Poland...