Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...case of Paradise Lost was no exception. Unanimously Mr. Odets was again declared to be the most promising playwright in the land. Again he got generous credit for his ability to stoke up steam under dramatic situations, explode them in fine style. Praised, too, was Mr. Odets' peculiar vulgate in which a girl is a "squab" or a "melon," thoughts are sometimes articulated by the titles of popular songs and a state of amorous infatuation occurs when "the little love bugs get into you." The play as a play, however, critics unanimously found confused, pretentious, empty. Mr. Odets...
...fade-outs seem to be due to sudden, localized disturbances on the solar surface. To confirm this Dr. Dellinger asked Mt. Wilson Observatory if anything peculiar had showed up in the spectrohelioscope observations on the fade-out days. Back came word that on July 6, Aug. 30 and Oct. 24, within a few minutes of the fading, huge clumps of gas on the sun had manifested marked changes in form and behavior...
HELD as firmly as Mary Pickford in the affection of those who remember the silent movies Richard Barthelmess, Trinity 17. Like Pickford Barthelmess was one of the first artists to co-directly out of a peculiar art sponsored by former furriers and glove salesmen. Like her he has remained in the imaginations of those who applauded the screen's first crudities and naive, simplicity that often had a power of its own. Manly, but not robust heroism and splendid, sad faced patience through adversity won Richard Barthelmess his place...
...does seem peculiar that certain members of the Harvard Faculty are unable to resist the lure of the siren's pen, and the happy knowledge of having crashed the front page or the newsreel. The job of the professor is to teach,--not to make dilletante statements known not to be true. Possibly through the higher branches of mathematics, on can derive something from nothing, but mental queerness must be magnified many times before one can equate a "storm" of drunkenness "passing over Harvard" with one isolated, unfortunate case of janitorial abuse. The general sobriety apparent at the recent Lowell...
...House of Bishops has neither confirmed nor voided Bishop Torok's peculiar apostolicity. But having made a thorough investigation with the House's permission, Eau Claire's Bishop Frank Wilson last week formally received Bishop Torok in his Cathedral during a simple communion service...