Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...milking time. Most of the epidemics have occurred during the winter and spring months. Always they are explosive: a sudden appearance of sore throat throughout the community, accompanied by chilliness, headache, muscular soreness, nausea, vomiting. The glands of the throat swell up; complications as peritonitis, pneumonia, arthritis are not rare. The abrupt violence of the illness gives little scope for serum, and so far little success has been had with...
Efrem Zimbalist, violinist husband of Singer Alma Gluck, had a reunion last week with his favorite violin-a rare 18th century Cremona, made by famed Guadagnini, worth some $25,000. The instrument was stolen a year ago from Mr. Zimbalist's dressing room in a Los Angeles concert hall. The thief was captured when he tried to sell his distinguished booty in Chicago. After being shipped to Los Angeles to be used as evidence, the violin was addressed to Mr. Zimbalist in Australia. It missed him there and missed him in Tokyo, Shanghai, Hongkong, Manila, Calcutta, Bombay, etc., Chicago...
...giant gorilla, with Lulu and Lizzie, chimpanzees, Billy, rare blue cat, and 166 other animals including 12 cobras, 35 assorted snakes, came from Spanish Guinea on the Zarembo. J. L. Buck, Hoo-Hoo's owner, described a gorilla hunt: "Hoo-Hoo's mother and two aunts were escorting him through the jungles. My 21 pygmies chased him 17 days and nights. At length ... the pygmies let fly at him with their poisoned arrows." Deposited gingerly on a waiting truck, Hoo-Hoo jolted toward Camden, N. J., and Hunter Bucks' personal, private...
...born February 14, 1925. C. Under the name of Ruth Elder, famed aviatrix, the following was syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers-part of a description of a White House luncheon: "The event was jolly. I noticed President Coolidge ate very little and I won one of his rare smiles when I said: 'Why, Mr. President, you eat just like a canary...
George Wigglesworth: Sixth in an unbroken line of Harvard men, who in college were high scholars and in private station have devoted their lives to the public good. A rare spirit and a great gentleman...