Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Before the ceremonies began Mrs. Coolidge paused to admire seven nightingales prisoned behind bamboo laced with poinsettias. She fed them several wriggling worms of a rare species raised specially and shipped from Philadelphia. Six brightly insolent flamingoes stalking near picking up their food for themselves...
...Hoover was tempted to tell his favorite story, about a cow in China during the Boxer Rebellion. This cow belonged to the Hoovers and they cherished her because good rich milk WAS rare then and there. Some predatory Germans took the cow. Forth-went the Hoovers leading their cow's small calf through narrow streets, punching and-prodding it into a grief-stricken moo-oo-ooing. Mother cow, hidden behind walls, heard the call of her young and mooed back maternally. Out rushed the Germans?and took away the calf...
...coming lectures of Henry Osborn Taylor will give the University an opportunity to hear one of her most widely read graduates. Interested primarily in the tracing of the shifting, currents of thought throughout the ages, the author of "The Medieval Mind" has the rare faculty of carrying his reader into the spirit of a bygone era without losing perspective...
Exactly 1,888 years ago last week Caligula was assassinated for insult to a Praetorian tribune. He was only 29, but into the few years of his manhood he packed a rare amount of extravagance, cruelty, debauchery...
...Manhattan as the curtain rose on the last performance of the German Grand Opera Company, Walter Elschner, its stage manager, died. He had worked day and night planning and preparing the staging of the Ring operas, snatching rare naps stretched out on chairs in a box at the Opera House, until he suffered a nervous collapse, pneumonia, swift death...