Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rare...
...author endeavored to make the play homely and human. He succeeded, but at the expense of interest. The action drags one foot after the other interminably. The characters seem too familiar; the comedy is rare...
...cents per week. In his ransacking, Editor Flynn had accomplished the seemingly impossible task of discovering "a wholly new writer whose prolific brain can evolve and depict fresh, sparkling detective situations"-a man comparable, in Editor Flynn's mind, to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle. This rare being was none other than Richard E. Enright, Police Commissioner of New York City, a man whose "own career demonstrates that men are much like milk-'the cream comes to the top.'" Young and ambitious, Enright began as a railway telegraph operator, became "just a cop" in Manhattan...
...Claude M. Hart, 58, of Boston, won the play-off of his tie with Henry S. Redfield, 59, of Hartford, for the U. S. senior golf title (TIME, Sept. 22). Scores?Hart, 77; Redfield, 84, over the Apawamis course. Oddly, both men were of that rare links species, the lefthander...
...rare fellow, comparable to Poe, Gaboriau, Wilkie Collins...