Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a few weeks of preliminary study in Paris, Professor Conant will proceed to Jugo-Slavia to study the Byzantine churches of the 13th and 14th centuries, peculiar to the Balkan peninsula, under the guidance of the Jugo-Slavian government. From here he will go to Athens to take part in the excavation of the Parthenon, and will then return to the Abbey of Cluny. On returning from Europe he hopes to publish a survey of the architecture of the Balkan churches, which have received little attention from archeologists...
...published Town Topics 30, 40 years ago, he made a straightforward if unpleasant practice of "borrowing" large sums from individuals who did not want unkind things printed about themselves in the gossip sheet. Return of the money customarily was not made or expected, but the pompous colonel had a peculiar means of repayment at his command each Tuesday night when the magazine was being made up. On those nights he presided noisily over the editorial rooms, his lawyer at his elbow, reading and initialing proofs of every item which had been set in type for that issue. Now and then...
...this being true, Dr. Thomson proposes: "To organize an electro-magnetic 'hummer' which, at small expense of energy, can spread over a large space the peculiar hum, and attract the males; perhaps also repelling the females. Various ways of trapping the males may be suggested, as they need not be desiccated or cooked to get rid of them...
...many cases, however, the situation is quite otherwise. Benefactors have peculiar notions of the uses to which they want their money put. Some of them like to give rewards to students who show proficiency in strange lines of scholarly research, as any one can see who takes the trouble to study the list of prizes open for competition. Many of the subjects involved fall annually to interest even as many as one competitor, with the result that the prize money is annually turned back into the principal account to rot some more...
...just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never any suspense. You are aware that before the picture is over. Miss Gaynor and her accomplice will be on the brink of matrimony. They have become engaged to each other in half the civilized countries of the world...