Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means let us do away with the simplicity of the present cheer--which is so simple that spontaneity is said to creep into it at times--a rare presence in any organized cheer. Let us instead drill a chorus of bright-clothed acrobats to thrill visitors to Cambridge with antic contortions on the side lines. For the present cheer, with the pounding weight of lung-power behind it, with its full energy directed to the field and to the game there being played,--let us substitute an ingenious concoction of shrieks, whistles, walls, and hoarse laughter, the latter evincing that...
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...RARE BEN JONSON?Byron Steel?Knopf ($3). ". . . Ben tries in vain to spear an eel with the newly-invented fork, and in exasperation flings the fork across the room. With his large hand he dips up an eel from its greasy dish and conveys it drippingly to his mouth. He smacks his lips loudly, and washes the eel down with a deep tankard of Canary. . . . "Ben sleeps heavily, and awakes the next morning in a dripping sweat, but with brave notions. . . . He always writes under these conditions. His drunken, salty sweat seems to bring him inspiration." Thus Author Steele...
This dinner calls for an elaborate ritual. First one of the guests must "call the pudding down" and another guest must "lead the pudding in." After that it is carved and eaten with rare old liquers to "wash it down...
...consensus that Leon Trotzky is the most brilliant of all the Soviet leaders, not even excepting Lenin. In stature small and unimpressive and in appearance like a university professor, he is a striking orator with a rare gift for metaphor. As an organizer, he probably has not an equal in all Russia, which is not noted for producing genius of that type. Fearlessness in debate has at once been his strength and his weakness; for by it he conquered and because of it he was conquered...