Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...communication with Osborne Cottage, and we talked with Sir Thomas and Mary Biddulph, also heard some singing quite plainly. But it is rather faint, and one must hold the tube close to one's ear." Bismarck. "A terrible man, infamous, hateful, monstrous!" Tennyson. "He is very peculiar looking and oddly dressed, but there is no affectation about him." Garibaldi (whose revolutionary tactics against the petty Italian states made possible the present United Kingdom of Italy). "I much regret the extravagant excitement [in England] respecting Garibaldi, which shows little dignity or discrimination in the nation. . . . Brave and honest though...
President Lincoln. Smooth and sleek-faced as a well-fed Britisher, he spoke with the accent peculiar to Piccadilly Circus. He discussed the U. S. Civil War with a comfortable affability, an easy indifference, a polished negligence. To indicate that he had aged during the performance, he hooked on a fringe of whiskers running from...
There are many pictures which present the peculiar trend which impressionism has taken against the Spanish background, and which is most strikingly represented by the portraits of Zuloaga. Mezquita discards the landscape background and the black lace mantilla, however, in many of his pictures in favor of a more traditional treatment. The subject of one of these, called Paquita by the painter, would be enough to make this vagabond settle down and join the Rotary Club...
When Charles Lamb invented his category of "books which are not books", it probably did not enter his mind that a peculiar specimen with whole chapters in turn smudged and crisp, would later apply for admission. Very likely, if he could see one of them, he would be at a loss to explain the evident enthusiasm felt for the chapters so devastatingly conned. But to all who frequent Widener these volumes are common place. They are witness to a species of intellectual privation...
...Great steel skeletons point into the sky; steel-colored men, monotonously alike, pour life into them . . . Any Coney Island, with its merry-go-rounds, its sideshows, girls, sailors, street-cleaners, sandwich men, time clocks . . . No story, says Mr. Carpenter, just American life?Work and Play?"each with its own peculiar and distinctive rhythmic character"?American life for which Robert Edmund Jones designed the sets, for which Sammy Lee, famed director of Broadway revues, planned the choreography; in which jazz plays its restless, throbbing part, seems real, sincere because it does not pretend to be the basis...