Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President of the U. S. been in London last week instead of on the Pacific, Mr. Roosevelt might have scanned with peculiar interest his morning papers...
...Italy! Italy! entirely and universally Fascist, rise to your feet! Let the cry of your determination rise to the skies and reach our soldiers in East Africa. It is the cry of Justice and of Victory!" Secreted in the Dictator's frenzy-rousing speech was a pledge of peculiar interest to Geneva statesmen who, while feeling that the League must save its face by voting "sanctions," desperately hope these will not provoke II Duce to war in Europe. The Dictator pledged, "To economic sanctions we shall answer with our discipline, our spirit of sacrifice, our obedience." This of course...
...argument's sake) that there is a Philosophy section man who is also interested in bee-propagation. How are the twenty sophomores going to learn that their secret you is also the burning but dark passion of the section man? Unless one recognizes in the other that futile look peculiar to those with unusual hobbies nothing more is going to be done to further these legitimate interests...
When the Freshman has dealt with all these persons in his peculiar way, he finds that there are, somewhere, some lectures which he must attend. Is it any wonder that the poor fellow is either driven into his shell, or brought out of it with such violence that the eccentricity of his dress or speech is startling? Is it any wonder that he only settles down in time to treat next year's Freshmen in the same...
...Plenty o' Nuttin'", and "It ain't Necessarily So", which have a haunting melodic appeal and seem destined for considerable popularity. And there are themes such as those used in "Buzzard Song" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" which are highly talented musical expressions of Mr. Gershwin's peculiar genius. Final judgment of the music is obviously the work of a music critic but the inspiration and dramatic worth of the score demand praise from even an unlearned quarter...