Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...annual holiday production of the Harvard Dramatic Club takes the boards and bows tonight under the appropriate title of "Fiesta." There is no reason to doubt that it will measure up to the standard set by previous productions of the club. The lines and settings are encouraging to the peculiar zest of amateur acting, and the oldest living playgoer cannot remember when a drama by native talent had no honor in its own country...
Sensation seeking Czechs and Slovaks jammed the courtroom, thrilled by scars and scowls peculiar to the malignant face of Prisoner Bebe...
...Peculiar is the fact that only one species of high altitude fish can live in Bolivia's famed inland sea Lake Titicaca (see Map) 12,000 feet above Pacific sea level. When low altitude fish are poured into Lake Titicaca they refuse to breed...
Spain's invalid Crown Prince, the Infante Don Alfonso, suffers from exactly the same dread and peculiar disease, haemophilia,* which afflicted the Tsarevitch Alexis, son and heir of Tsar Nicholas the Last. The Tsaritsa and the Tsar are well known to have fallen a prey to the notorious "Black Monk" and hypnotist Gregory Rasputin, whom they devoutly believed to be the only person capable of curing the Tsarevitch. In Spain rumors have long been irresponsibly current that Queen Victoria Eugenie has employed an obscure Catalonian doctor to attend the Infante Don Alfonso...
When Two-Gun-Man Ziga Vuciterna looked up from his work there was no other living soul to be seen in court. Wild-eyed but no longer violent the Dum-Dum Murderer reversed both his pistols in his hands, turning them upon himself, and stood in this peculiar attitude until bailiffs plucked up courage to come in and arrest him and the judge crawled out from under his bench...