Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...submitting to him every Saturday night, one winter, material for a supplementary volume in the series, I had an exceptional opportunity to observe the rare catholicity of his taste and the absolute independence of his judgment. He would not even consider anything that did not meet three tests: it must be simple, of superior literary technique, and of wholesome human sentiment. No author's name would recommend a selection deficient in any one requirement. For example, Stevenson's children's verses were mostly "adult opinions in grown-up language". "I wouldn't have in my book a poem with 'birdie...
Chief among the many gifts of rare volumes presented to Widener Library in commemoration of the Centenary is the entire collection retained by the Norton family, from which the Library may choose at its own discretion. Professor P. J. Sachs '60, Professor C. N. Greenough '98, and Professor G. L. Kittredge 92, together with many graduates and undergraduates, have sent gift-volumes, many of which are on display in the Treasure Room...
Professor Greenough has presented two volumes to the Library: a rare French work and a second edition of the poems of Robert Southey, dated...
...last week, hypnotized a young woman. During the hour she lay so, Dr. Harold G. Jones of Chicago opened her abdomen and removed several bothersome adhesions. She felt no pain and, upon awakening, experienced none of the nauseating after-effects of usual anesthetics. Such operations upon hypnotized patients are rare in the U. S. In Europe (notably in France and Germany) they are frequent. Europeans esteem the uses of hypnotism. They used it for surgical operations 100 years ago. The discovery in 1848 of chloroform's anesthetic properties curtailed the practice somewhat. But, notably at Nancy, France, hypnotism continued...
...purely playful. The King sends Columbus off to discover America just too soon. These ponderous problems are interpreted, well enough, by Frances Starr and Reginald Mason. There is a joke about the Nights of Columbus. The Mulberry Bush. Dramatist Edward Knoblock discusses divorce with some sagacity, some wit, and rare indelicacy. Gathered into one rowdy evening are a mutually cheerful man and the wife from whom he plans severance, his mistress and his fiancee. The quadrangle is finally solved in the wife's bedroom with plans for the divorce melting in the pink mists of rediscovery. Claudette Colbert, adding...