Word: peculiare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cosmopolitan). Judson Hammond (Walter Huston) when elected President of the U. S. is a free & easy party politician, addicted to undignified jollities and speeding in his automobile. When he blows out a tire at 98 m.p.h., he gets concussion of the brain. During his convalescence there are peculiar sounds of music in the sickroom; the curtains shake in what might have been a breeze. When President Hammond recovers, he is a changed man. His female secretary (Karen Motley) tells his male secretary (Franchot Tone) that she thinks the Angel Gabriel may be hovering about the White House...
...would not say so," said Lawyer Parkes, "but she became infatuated with him. You will hear evidence that the accused always had a peculiar attraction for women, and a peculiar attitude toward them which perhaps I may best describe as a lack of chivalry...
...Orient), yellow fever, malignant malaria, and in the seaports venereal disease. Country people exhibit comparatively little venereal disease. On the other hand, mainly because they go barefoot and tend to wash little, they are subject to the tropical fevers and sores. Oroya fever and Andean Wart are peculiar to a small area of the Peruvian highlands. Latin Americans are specially susceptible to cataracts, a situation which partially explains the eminence of eye doctors in the Pan-American Medical Association...
...subject; the less able and the lazy perish by the wayside, for cramming is almost impossible. This is the method by which all real study is accomplished, and it has the advantage of preventing the student's point of view from being warped by opinions which may be peculiar to any individual or school of historians...
...York girls here--and their contacts are in New York. That's why some girls are 'date crazy.' They have not the contacts here and, being human, they like a good time. Consequently, when a phone call comes, it is welcomed. But many of the girls have the rather peculiar notion that college is a place for study--and so they do." --Sunday Post...