Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Johnson and his kindred spirits were alive today, they would undoubtedly be enrolled as charter members of the Fraternal Bananas, although such Japanist an eighteenth century might conceivably rare exception to the name. At any rate, they would certainly approve the principle and it is even within the banads of possibility that they would advocate its extension to cover such disturbers of the public mind as vaudeville sopranos and raconteurs prohibition jokes...
Unappreciant of news value, the three Princetonians did not realize that a limerick from the lips of an ex-President is as rare as a cowslip from Mars. They allowed their fellow-students and the world at large to live on, unillumined by those historically unequaled verses. They were guilty of poor journalism...
Three Princetonians who overlooked something as rare as a cowslip from Mars...
...rare that a Harvard team is outplayed in every department of the game. Yet on Saturday Dartmouth was so powerful as to smother any attempted offense of the Crimson, and when on the defense, with the lone exception of Hubbard's superb playing, the Crimson forwards were dwarfted by the Green line, which found little trouble in opening holes for their backs and even swinging into the interference...
...anyone who has read modern writings, even to a small degree, it is a joy to fall heir to one of Professor Bliss Perry's books for review. There is so much of the man in the book; so much kindliness, humanity, and that all too rare literary (or actual) quality, sincerity. Without the fanfare of stylistic trumpets, the beating of bombastic tom-toms, or the clash of epigrammatic cymbals, Professor Perry goes on his quiet, unassuming way, marching steadily and with dignity, and with a slight twinkle in his eye, to his goal...