Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lies, Lies, Lies. In smashing contradiction of many a still prevalent belief, Laborite Ponsonby sets out to demonstrate: 1) That, generally speaking, "German atrocities" were extremely rare; and, specifically, German soldiers in Belgium and France never cut off the hand or hands of a single child; 2) That Allied propagandists created and attributed to Wilhelm II the reference to "England's contemptible little army" which became the most effective British recruiting slogan of the entire War; 3) That the sinking of the Lusitania was justified by the fact that she carried arms; 4) That German submarine commanders...
...extremely rare is even the slightest variation in Queen Mary's health that last week the Empire was not unmoved when it was known that Her Majesty had a "slight cold...
...sales value of rare books is far more than an alibi. This was never more startlingly demonstrated than last week at the Manhattan auction of the books collected by famed songwriter Jerome David Kern (Kalua, Raggedy Ann, Who, Old Man River} of Bronxville, N.Y. At that sale Dickens' Pickwick Papers (perfect copy, first edition) sold for $28,000. Fielding's Tom Jones (first edition, uncut, original binding) brought $29,000. Hardy's A Pair of Blue Eyes (original manuscript of twelve chapters) topped the sale at $34,000. A total of 748 items brought...
...Kansas about 60,000,000 years ago. It was brought to the museum in 1883, where it was put away in the attic still embedded in the rock, and its presence forgotten. In an extensive cleaning-up last summer the specimen was found again and proved to be of rare size and completeness...
...Volpone" leaves an impression of the same compact thought and fertile gesture that made rich its three predecessors. What makes it principally worth seeing is the rare after-pleasure of dramatic entity...