Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cambria plant at Johnstown, Pa. First he sent in State police who with a firm hand arrested strikers as well as non-strikers to suppress violence. Since the mill continued to operate and the State police prevented the strikers from closing the mill by force, he was in the peculiar position for a Labor Governor, of "breaking the strike." Then the United Mine Workers called 40,000 miners to march on Johnstown. Declaring martial law, he sent in troops and shut the mill (TIME, June 28). So there was no violence of consequence in Johnstown. Where three others had fumbled...
Reported Dr. Stokley by wireless: "The whole scene had a peculiar hue as if illuminated by an arc light. . . . The camera was grinding and the ocean was getting darker, but I could not notice any definite shadow on the sea. Then I heard the whistle blown by the ship's carpenter as a sign that totality had begun. Overhead appeared the brilliantly clear, greyish-black disk of the moon and around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon...
Jokes like these, peculiar to the Marx Brothers, are somehow as funny on the screen as they are unfunny in print. A Day at the Races, which took a year to make, is happily distinguished from previous Marx pictures in that it contains more of them. A wild, complex, totally implausible fable about a run-down sanatorium, its impudent porter (Chico), an imported horse-doctorphysician (Groucho) and the steeplechase in which a speechless jockey (Harpo) gets the money to pay off the sanatorium's debts through his brilliant ride on a horse who hates the gambler who is trying...
Revolting as Lulu's career is in outline, Composer Berg dressed it in music too peculiar and powerful to be discounted. Throughout he used the twelve-tone scale he learned from Arnold Schönberg, to whom the opera is dedicated. Song forms are woven in so cunningly as not to be obtrusive. A sonata form announces the appearance of Dr. Schön; a rondo suggests his son. The whole orchestra converses gruesomely over one death, lyrically pleads when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, strikes an ugly dissonance of shrieking brasses when she is murdered...
...reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities of such ignition. First, the least probable is ball lightning. I have never seen it and have no knowledge of it or the conditions creating it. I only know that ball lightning can show peculiar actions, which are incalculable and moody...