Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spoon, taking them with a sucking movement. She also would suck the corner of her gown or sheet. She began to soil herself regularly and had to be changed without giving any assistance, the nurse using large cloths in the manner of diapers. She would eat, sleep, make peculiar noises and cry. She liked to be fondled and handled by almost anyone. Her only recognition of her family was an expression of delight when they came...
Basketball at Harvard enjoys a peculiar standing; unlike almost every other College in the country, it is a minor sport; and when Yale, as it is generally expected, makes it a major sport, Harvard will be the only team in the League whose players will not receive major insignia as there reward for the season's work...
...These peculiar circumstances as well as the fact that he is the spokesman of the Court contrived last week to make Mr. Hughes the central, if silent, figure of the Court debate. But the Chief Justice was the central figure for a still better reason: On the lips of every liberal who objected to the Court's power was his famed dictum, "The Constitution is what the judges...
...week's Jubilee Durbar, creating Hyderabad's Crown Prince Azam Jah additionally Prince of Berar. Thus officially ended was the long dispute over Berar which was almost taken away from Hyderabad by domineering Viceroy Lord Curzon. Berar is about the size of Switzerland, immensely valuable because its peculiar soil produces the finest cotton which can be grown in India...
...three lean years before they developed their present brand of satirical lunacy. It finally got them a job in a night club where Darryl Zanuck spotted them, hired them as an adjunct to the hilarious musical Sing Baby Sing. There, especially in a Jekyll & Hyde number, they displayed their peculiar talents to perfection-part eccentric dancing, part owlish mimicry, part brutality, part a musical patter of song, pun and gibberish. One in a Million followed, then On the Avenue, which should establish them as top-flight cinecomedians. They have a normal brother and sister named Gertrude and George. They like...