Word: peculiarity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...word Boxer comes from a mistranslation of the Chinese I ho Gh'uan, meaning The Patriotic United Fists, a secret society which originally was anti-dynastic, and had nothing to do with pugilism in spite of some " peculiar calisthenic exercises." At the end of the 19th Century the society came under the influence of the Empress Dowager, who persuaded them that the foreigner and his. spheres of interest-and not the Manchu dynasty-was responsible for the ills of China, and incited them to fight the invaders of their land-hence the Boxer Rising...
Protection has never been a popular doctrine in England and despite the extraordinary condition of unemployment and the tendency to dump foreign goods in the only free market of the world, it is likely that the Conservatives would be doomed to defeat were it not for the peculiar political situation. True, the National Liberals and those who were at one time dubbed as the "Wee Frees" have united in the persons of their leaders. But the great Labor party, the official opposition, remains out of the fold. "Divide et impera" have thought the Conservatives, and they have fitted their actions...
Miss, Mason's voice was not sweet although it was limpid and rich. She possessed a certain emotional restraint that lent to her singling a peculiar voluptuousness. Her voice showed to best advantage in Batch's Bist du bel mir." Her rendition of Batti, batti" would, we think have been more successful had it been more animated. She sang also Dupare's "Chanson Triste", Liszt's "Comment disaient-lls?" and Rachmanlnoff's, "Flcods of Spring...
...very recent years that its importance has been realized when absorption has been responsible for dyeing cloth with ease and economy, and gas masks were invented, depending solely on the principle of the absorption qualities of charcoal. Professor McBain exhibited very many interesting examples of dyeing showing very peculiar colors and shapes that resulted from tests applied to find the absorption qualities of commercial dyes...
...quackery. He recalls the 50-year vogue of lithium water, then the hypnotic wave made classic in Trilby and finally dooms modern psychoanalysis to the same neglect into which both the previous obsessions have fallen. Cures associated with superstition are also mentioned. Even in the 19th Century a peculiar efficacy was supposed to attach to the rope which had hanged...