Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard sauce he mixed last week for the staff and patients of the Danvers (Mass.) State Hospital. Carefully he measured the proper amount of butter and powdered sugar. Carefully he poured in his flavoring. Laboriously he creamed the mixture. And pridefully he took a taste. The flavor was peculiar. He took another taste, and another. Soon Hugh Foye was dead with a stomach ache...
...DeMille technique is as peculiar as his ideology. He is almost the only director in Hollywood who still uses a megaphone. Bald, ruddy-faced, he wears riding breeches and puttees made especially for directing. On a silver chain he carries his "finder," a glass similar to the lens of the camera. Visitors are welcome on a DeMille set. He enjoys giving tirades for their benefit. During Cleopatra, he noticed an extra wearing a belt that was historically incorrect. Standing in front of his microphone, he bawled to his secretary: "Take a confidential memo to the production department," and proceeded...
...flowing black hair, wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, black tie, wing collar, black suit and high-heeled black cowboy boots. He was never a cowboy. He comes from Coalgate in Coal County, is the son of a missionary to the Indians and is famed for his peculiar behavior on the bench. When his raven-like eye spots a prominent onlooker in his court room, he is apt to halt proceedings, introduce the visitor, make him take a bow. He holds that every judge, before he takes office, should have at least five years experience as a poker player...
...that, he had a philosophical as well as a speculative cast of mind. After his killing in Amalgamated Copper, when he was only 32, he seriously considered retiring with his profits to study law and enter public life as a reform politician. For gambling for gambling's own peculiar thrill he had no love. His speculations were for profit only. More than that he was a speculator on moral principle. His credo: "I am a speculator and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe...
When one settles down to read a magazine such as TIME after a day of more or less hard work, he doesn't desire or expect to be faced with this type of morbid literature. Coming upon it unexpectedly, he is left in a rather peculiar state of mind, a state of mind that can be achieved by reading any number of cheaper publications. At least, he should be able to expect well-written informative material, and he should be able to feel satisfied that he is better off for having read...