Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the flushed birds have been winged, a motor lorry will roll up. A butler materializes. Soon the sportsmen are regaled with "high" game, with meats that are rare and bloody in a fashionably virile sense, and with champagne iced in a portable refrigerator...
...Joseph Herman Hertz, Chief Rabbi of the British Empire, consented to be interviewed. It was a rare event and one for which Journalist Betty Ross, able stylist, took proper pride of accomplishment. Editor David N. Mosessohn of the Jewish Tribune printed her "story" last week. His Eminence, as Journalist Betty Ross likes to term him, received her in his private residence at Hamilton Terrace in the northwest part of London. Few U. S. visitors have had the privilege of entering his cheery reception room, with its large windows, its creamy-tinted walls, etchings, photographs. Journalist Betty Ross made herself...
...More than $5,000,000 of the fund to be raised will be used to endow professorships, so that Mr. Holt can carry out his plan to assemble at Rollins a group of great teachers who have the rare gift of teaching and who possess the nobility of character to inspire youth...
...billions of miles of passage through universal vacancy, but when the radiations enter Earth's heavy atmosphere they are dispersed, feebled and as difficult to detect and measure as a whisper in a hurricane. Star heat is best studied at altitudes where Earth's atmosphere is rare. To rare-aired Mount Wilson, therefore, went Dr. Abbot, where he can introduce starlight reflected from the 100-inch Carnegie Institute sky-reflector into his newest and finest radiometer-an instrument so delicate that a part of it is constructed of flies' wings; an instrument ten times as sensitive...
ALMA-Margaret Fuller-Morrow ($2). Here is a character less rare in life than in literature, an oversexed angel set down among men to minister to their wants as a slavey but never to be wanted for herself. Tall, strong, beautifully made, fine-skinned, middleaged, immaculate, actual Almas are "Cook" or "Nurse" in thousands of U. S. households. They go to the Scandinavian Church religiously. Their eyes grow moist easily over members of "the family...