Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Club, Rye, N. Y. Having caddied and coached the Champion to victory last Fall, Joe could not bear to miss her performance this year and had traveled to Providence "on his own" to be at her side. Well above the voting age, shrewd as any Irishman, Joe is a rare jewel among caddies...
...First of all came oil. At the head of the buccaneers as they marched along rode the Secretary of the Interior. And after oil, the veterans. Here was a rare field for enterprise. A year and a half after Congress had appropriated $33,000,000 for building purposes, only 200 hospital beds had been added to the Bureau's equipment, and those in a hospital purchased readymade. If it be true that public interest in these things has waned, is it not a public duty to see that it is revived before the day of judgment comes...
...Significance. For its acute penetration of the French and English tempers, its rich, complete personalities, its sure, translucent substantiation of subtle motives, its warm humanity, its rare good taste and rarer good humor, this is as fine a book as one might ask for. The dignity of mind and manner are those of a gentlewoman; the cool, easy prose and the bookmanship are those of a gentlewoman of letters...
...admiration for my native state is well known. It now includes a great admiration for Miss Cleghorn, although many of her opinions are far from my own. Here is a liberal, almost a radical mind, finely tempered by New England sanity and balance. It is a combination, rare in literature, perhaps rarer still in teaching. Her passion for humanity, tinged with mysticism, makes her verse memorable, and I imagine that as her work as a teacher develops, she will add not a few disciples to her already large list of friends...
...There are also artists who paint cattle, ballet-dancers, ships. Will Howe Foote's Southcote-Bermuda stands out among the many typical paintings for its imaginative execution. Here and there in the exhibit, one can detect a disturbing hint, a fugitive suggestion of modernism, but such instances are rare and-unLyme-like...