Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joseph Husband graduated from Harvard in 1908. He was one of those rare souls who was at one time an editor of the CRIMSON, the Lampoon, and Mother Advocate, so he really knows whereof he speaks when he writes about Harvard. So much for local color. The action is swift and interesting. The story is of a scion of an old New England family who expects the world to bow down and worship his blue blood. He manages to stay in Harvard just about a year and a half. Then, after a painful scene in University 4, he goes west...
...similar exhibition held at Yale recently, said, "I am very glad that Mr. Block is exhibiting this afternoon some of Alfred Knopf's publications. Mr. Knopf is one of the most enterprising of modern publishers, and many of his books are interesting and valuable. The manuscripts and rare books are very fascinating and Mr. Block's informal talks about books and their authors should be stimulating to all book lovers...
Other Centers. An opera company that earns money has always been a very rare bird. One that breaks even or loses only a little is rare enough. The big companies of Europe all run up deficits and are usually subsidized by their governments. Deficit and opera have always been closely associated. Last season the Chicago Opera Company lost half a million. This season the deficit is less, around $300,000. Gallo's San Carlo Company, a popular-priced road troupe which is now finishing its season with a grandiose series of operas in Havana, earns a net profit, much...
...Rhodes at Oxford and the Victor Chapman Memorial here at Harvard, students of unusual abilities are given the opportunity for study overseas. But it fittingly remains for the new gift in the name of Richard Parker to honor, as does the Gordon Brown scholarship at Yale, each year the rare combination of wide interests, high standards, intellectual ability, and fine balance. In an age of specialized mediocrity such a gift is more than welcome...
...meet Mrs. Rinehart in her Washington home is to see a hostess of charm, and to hear a raconteuse of ability. Like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, she has the rare gift of dramatizing fact so that it has the thrill of a mystery story. Dark, faultlessly dressed, with graceful nervous hands and the deep eyes that are at once penetrating and sympathetic, she is a beautiful and a forceful woman...