Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...adverse criticism and a minimum of praise. Even the ultra-radical journal, The Daily Herald, while stressing the significance of the Prince of Wales as Edward Windsor, does not hesitate to imply that it opposes attacking the Royal Family. While such obscenities are not unknown, they are particularly rare. Britishers have had good cause to admire and look up to the present Royal House, not only as a great democratic and patriotic family, but as the living symbol that binds the world-flung empire so securely. Serious minded people have read an affront to the Royal Family and the empire...
Walpole's work is rich in background and in characterization, as well as in a rare understanding of humanity without an overlarding of the sentimental. He is wise, tolerant and youthful in his freshness of interest in life. Having accomplished so much at so early an age (39), there is every chance that he will continue to write better and better books. His last word, the other day, was: "Well, I must try to write a novel that's really a novel, now that this lecturing if over !" He probably will...
...world he must face when the four years' course is ended. The usual student in the American college is lamentably minus as a coming citizen. He does not read the newspapers. His current knowledge is of the slightest, his interest in the questions of the day, save in rare instances, is nil. In backward China, in progressive Japan, in France and Germany, the student must be reckoned with in public matters. Here he cuts no figure at all. There is too much "Tom Brown at Oxford" and too much of the "Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green" in his composition...
Phillip Berolzheimer, City Chamberlain of New York, is a square set, ruddy faced, stolidly teutonic sort of man from the Middle West. He is rather a beguiling person-an instance of that rare creature, a holder of high political office who is not self seeking. He got his post with the present Democratic administration for the purpose of furthering the cause of music, specifically to organize park concerts for the people of the poorer sections of the town. This system of concerts required more money than financial authorities would spend. Berolzheimer was a rich man. He put up the money...
...Salisbury, Md., a baby girl was born with six toes on each foot? rare, because they were all completely developed...