Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virgins-the rum trade and the resupplying of ships. Rival West Indian ports are making the most of the fact that St. Thomas is dry to attract ships to their ports for refueling. So whereas once 90 ships called every month at St. Thomas, it is a rare month now when 25 vessels put in. The Colonial Council was very emphatic in telling Secretary Denby that the Volstead Act is "ruining the islands." Mr. Denby replied that what the islands need is not rum but water, which is also true...
...friendly relations reestablished between Frank Vanderlip and rare beef...
Frank A. Vanderlip: " I returned to New York from California in perfect health. Insulin, new serum for diabetes, has given me an appetite like a hired man. And I can look rare beef and boiled potatoes squarely in the face...
...professional gambler and scientific poker player, made it a rule never to "come in" on less than "three of a kind", except very occasionally on a deliberate bluff. This "great American pastime" has been compared to politics, but incidents in which an opponent has been scared off are very rare indeed, and, needless to say, have never occurred in a presidential election. As matters now stand, political gamesters of both parties are admitting that the Republicans have a disadvantage, because they are not in a position to win on a bluff. And in a "show-down", too, the results...
...fine, genial fellow, a learned musician and, one guesses, a lively hand with a pair of boxing gloves. He formed the chorus in the normal process of training a church choir of boys and men, and has schooled them to a high degree of expertness in the rare and difficult art of unaccompanied singing. He has recruited his singers from his parish. The Church is at 59th Street and Ninth Avenue and the parish embraces some of the rudest and roughest blocks of New York's West Side, traditional as a region of brick and fist fighting rather than...