Word: peculiarities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With an air of being just as bewildered about life as you are, James Thurber gives advice on peculiar pets, grammatical teasers. He tells in a wide-eyed way how Mr. Monroe was an open book to Mrs. Monroe though he fancied himself cleverly written. One of the puzzling problems in the "Pet Department": "My police dog has taken to acting very strange, on account of my father coming home from work every night for the past two years and saying to him, 'If you're a police dog, where's your badge?' after which he laughs (my father...
...this gray and wet week, the Vagabond has, however, found an item of peculiar cheer. He has never known which of the nine Muses that of Music is (some day he means to learn the names of all of them), but today he is making a short hegira to the Music Building at 10 o'clock to hear Mozart's Concerto in D minor. The score is written for two pianos and is one of the best known and most interesting of the composer's works, and the Vagabond knows that he will hear it ably rendered by Mr. Frank...
...delighted that a debate has been arranged between Harvard and our University of Porto Rico. There is one basis, and only one, on which we can build up a satisfactory relationship, and that is by mutual comprehension, understanding, and sympathy. Because of its peculiar position, the University of Porto Rico can play the major part in this role. As a member of the Class of 1909, I am delighted to find that Harvard grasps this...
...made into a talking picture, the result is nothing more than a photograph of what was designed for the legitimate stage. "The Criminal Code," which is now playing at the University, is distinctly an exception to this rule, for here the movie director has removed all of the elements peculiar to the stage and has adapted the plot with considerable skill to the rapidity and scope of the screen. He has not allowed himself to be confined by the picture frame of a theatre, but instead has incorporated into the sound and film the whole large scene of prison life...
...struck by Princeton teams--these are among the considerations which have led the Princetonian to affirm a belief which is widely held on the Campus. The specific causes of present conditions we have tried to set forth in a number of previous editorials. That they are not peculiar to Princeton is evidenced by similar testimony from the Williams Record, the Dartmouth, the Yale News, the Harvard CRIMSON, the Pennsylvanian, the Cornell Sun, and the Brown Herald, whose conclusions in general bear out those of the Princetonian. . . . Daily Princetonian...