Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...books whose first popularity the years do little to diminish. And there are books whose progress toward a place in the ranks of acknowledged greatness is as gradual and irresistible as the advance of a glacier. Travels in Arabia Deserta* (first published in 1888) belongs in this last rare class. One recognizes that, if any tale of a journey in modern times may stand beside the tale of the wanderings of Ulysses, it is this...
...auction of the late Lord Bryce's effects in London, a rare copy of his The American Commonwealth was knocked down for $16. This volume contained the unexpurgated chapter, withdrawn from later volumes, dealing with Tammany Hall and Tweed Ring corruption in Manhattan politics. This chapter cost Lord Bryce $50,000 in a law suit after his book was first published...
...measure, American universities have attempted to attain this end. Rhodes scholarships have facilitated an exchange of students with the great English universities; and special students are not rare. Exchange lecturers, who like Professor Feuillerat come to give special courses, help to dispel the prejudices of hidebound nationals. With the increasing frequency of-international debates and athletic meets, it is clear that all attempts to foster an international breadth of view do not emanate from college administrative offices, yet it is equally evident that there is no sharp realization of any such ideal by student bodies...
...intimate acquaintance with the classics. However, Christopher Morley, both in his poetry and his prose, seems to have emerged from this period of almost adolescent fertility. He writes with a beauty that is equaled by few Americans, and, occasionally, as in Where the Blue Begins, with rare fancy and high vision. This fact is pleasing to his friends, and his friends are legion. He is one of the most friendly of human beings...
...Swan. One of those rare and treasured experiences that more than justifies even a season that can tolerate the tawdriness of Red Light Annie and Abie's Irish Rose is The Swan by Franz Molnar. So fine it is that its torch advances immediately to the van of these 50 fitful flames of drama winking at each other across the New York night. Such plays as this give playwrights actors, directors stuff to dream on. It is a castle in Spain, captive and come abroad to display its graces to a murmuring world...