Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Religious paintings, examples of the rare beauty of the early Florentine and Sienese schools, are exhibited at the Institute during the summer. They are loaned by Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., who collected them before the War, and include paintings of Guidoceio Cozzarelli, Benvenuti di Giovanni, Paoli di Giovanni Fei, Jacopo del Sellajo, Ricci di Lorenzo...
...most imortant Rubens in America, The Adoration of the Magi, has been exhibited in Toledo. ¶The American Miniature Society is exhibiting at Pittsfield. ¶The Chicago Institute has exhibited rare etchings by Rembrandt, Whistler, Anders Zorn...
West Point graduated 261 cadets to become second lieutenants in the Army. General Pershing presented the diplomas and told the class: " You have a rare opportunity and a sacred obligation." Leading the class was F. R. Johnson, of Tacoma. Although he is an inch under the prescribed minimum height, he was admitted to the Academy on probation and led his class for four years, amassing 2,608 out of a possible 2,770 points. Thirteen of the graduates had served in the regular Army before entering the Academy; two were Filipinos; one was from Hawaii...
...have never quite dared to for fear of being called crude. "An Oxford Symbol"--we may as well tell you beforehand that it is a corkscrew--is done in the best Morley style; Dame Quickly and Glssing add their bit; and the chapter on "Sir Kenelm Digby" is a rare delight, with its recipes and its appreciation of old quaintness. . We should like, for our own part, to see more of Sir Kenelm in the future--and we would be curious to observe what Morley would do with, say, John Parkinson's "Paradisi in Sole", which is a treasure-trove...
...days when he was a millionaire mine owner, General Kharin owned palaces at Petrograd and Moscow containing rare art collections of fabulous value. He never traveled by train, but always " in a cortége of luxuriously appointed automobiles." During the war he was condemned to death for espionage in Germany, but was pardoned by Kaiser Wilhelm −no mean distinction...