Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...assimilation, anything more than spectacles, will perceive after reading the first sentence ("She gave a startled cry") that this is their kind of book. It is true that Mr. Maugham's material has served many a dingy charlatan; true also that his style is undistinguished. But he has a rare grace: humility. He wants to tell a good story, but he does not distort the pattern thrt life imposes upon even the most shoddy events. He writes sensationism with an air of having his manner dictated absolutely by his material. His story is as compact as a surgical dressing...
...MALLEY OF SHANGANAGH?Donn Byrne?Century ($1.25). It was a rare, lovely lady that de Bourke O'Malley saw in her white religious robes in the convent garden. She saw a fine young sunburned soldier, and his speech was gentle. So she gave over being Sister Ursula and became Joan O'Malley, religious no longer, though she had given herself in marriage to her Lord Christ Jesus...
...real pitcher's battle made the contest one of the most spectacular which has been staged on the field this year. Both Solomon Andrews '27, who did the mound honors for the first team, and Spalding, who was in the box for the seconds, were in rare form, although, the Team A man far outshone his more experienced rival...
...desertion was not really total. For a few weeks each spring, the doors were unlocked for the repetition of the well known course of "sepulchral lectures in anatomy" perseveringly delivered year in and year out by the Warrens. In order to capitalize to the greatest degree possible the rare and difficult to obtain subjects, usually one corpse a year the lectures were often from two to three hours long...
...rare that either crew defaults until its boat is actually sunk. In 1912, both boats sank, the race was rowed over again, Oxford...