Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book to read much more slowly than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding grapes, quiet grey eyes, legs "supple as the bending barley," and all the gems and moving animals and rare wonders of the world-a man that should play a tall harp is telling a deep epic. The Author's scholarship, of which he needed and exercised much in this book, comes from the old universities at Dublin, Paris, Leipzig. His way with words and occupation with matters spiritual...
...there is anything to denote the stretch of suburbia called Merion as an important adjunct of Philadelphia, it is a 12-acre park, full of rare trees, graveled drives and smooth lawns, surrounding an edifice of buff French limestone where hangs the most notable U. S. collection of modern...
...Jest." His wife, however, had this to say: "Well, he snores, grinds his teeth and moans in his sleep; but otherwise he is perfect." Mr. Rascoe likes to hear young writers' troubles, is enthusiastic, sociable, voluble. He has the long nose of intelligence; curly hair, bright eyes, rare words...
...York Stock Exchange 1) for the record number of different shares traded in during a single session and 2) for the record high averages at which certain groups of securities sold. Although there are 1,100 security issues listed for trading on this exchange, it is rare that more than one-half are traded in during any one day. Yet in one vigorous five-hour session last week, brokers dealt with 651 separate issues-the record. The previous record was 649 stocks on March 3, 1926. Of less importance was the fact that 2,607,170 shares changed hands...
...depths amid the quiet of an April dawn. And among her passengers was one whose name is daily on the lips of a host of Harvard men--the name of Harry Elkins Widener, "devoted to high ideals and characterized by scholarly habits and a fondness for collecting rare books...