Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fogg Museum is now exhibiting rare prints of many of the greatest of the German masters of the sixteenth century exclusive of Durer...
...commemoration of Charles Dickens' birthday on February 7, a collection of rare first editions of Dickens' books and plays and posters advertising his productions will be placed on exhibition on Monday in the Treasure Room of the University Library for two weeks...
...exhibition will contain not only rare copies of his books and plays, but also pictures and posters of amateur theatricals in which Dickens often played. These bill posters will be hung on the walls of the room and the books will be in the cases. Beside the Library collection of Dickens' works, additional books and bills have been loaned for the coming exhibit by the Boston branch of the Dickens Fellowship...
Miss Amy Lowell's great Life of John Keats* is about to appear. I call it a great life, having read a large part of it and found it human, beautifully written, a combination of scholarship and readability that is exceedingly rare. I expect that it will prove as popular as it is highly praised...
Childs-the string of 108 restaurants which stretches across the country from Manhattan to San Francisco-recently boasted about its million-dollar maison at Coney Island, built of "rare marbles and mosaics." The Bulletin became bitter, accused Childs of charging the public more for its bread, butter, toast, coffee, beans, ham-and-eggs than most other restaurants...