Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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State Department attaches had long been wondering whether any complaint would be made to Ambassador Dawes about the excessive costliness of his cable messages from London. On diplomatic business the Ambassador has been anything but brief and $400 messages from him to Washington have not been rare. If Statesman Stimson had any intention of suggesting that Ambassador Dawes economize on cable tolls, he put it aside when the Ambassador, all geniality, asked him to put up at the U. S. embassy during the London conference. Arm-in-arm they went off to Woodley, the Stimson estate, for luncheon. Secretary Stimson...
...which he has to administer, has developed at New Castle the unique plan of his predecessor Warden Plummer. Over the 600 convicts stand only three guards. The inmates are given prison keys, allowed to work unguarded outside the prison walls, permitted to drive trucks to Wilmington unaccompanied. Escapes are rare. The convicts themselves deliver discipline, ostracize rule-breakers. The inmates are given piecework, earn money for cigarets. clothes, sweets. During the day they wear blue denim work clothes, in the evening they dress like citizens for dinner...
Should the benefit of the Vagabond's rare experience be needed in the handling of specific problems he would be happy to be of help. There is no charge for this service. Just address him in care of the CRIMSON...
Thus was the stage set last week for a scene rare in Senate annals. Senator Norris would have dropped his resolution if Senator Bingham had consented to do "honestly and manfully" two things: 1) Admit his mistake in hiring Eyanson; 2) Apologize to the Lobby Committee. Senator Bingham, despite the pleading of his friends, refused...
Advertisements which knock instead of boosting have become rare in the U. S. But last week appeared, in some 600 newspapers throughout the U. S., a caricatured robot brutally plucking a harp over which hung a weeping muse (presumably Euterpe) and beside which sat a howling hound. The caption was: "The robot as an entertainer-Is the substitution for real music a success?" The advertising "story" appended was the American Federation of Musicians' complaint against substituting mechanically synchronized music for orchestras in theatres...