Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...valuable addition to the Widener Library's collection of rare books has just been received in the form of a copy of the "Magnalla Christi Americana" or the "Ecclesiastical History of New England...
...late Dr. William Romaine Newbold, announced completion of the world's first translation of Friar Roger's 800-page Opus maius, prodigious cryptogram in monkish dog-Latin that men had thought might contain marvelous secrets.* Particularly was a skeptical world interested in knowing whether, by any rare chance, Friar Roger had actually possessed an "elixir of life." Alas, the Opus mains revealed he had not. He had only, in his scholarly way, described one. The formula was enough to discourage the most boldfaced charlatan that ever sold canal water for a cureall. Elixir of life contains: "That which...
Surely something must be doue. It is all right to treat foreign ladies cavalierly but an American lady is too rare a genus to know even the scorn of the State department. So these attacks from the other terminus of the Boston and Albany against, not alone a lady, but a lady who charmed the Harvard intellectuals and bound Houdini to despair there vitrolic jobs must be fended...
...Rare is the day that brings no new plume to John Harvard's hat. A new ambassador, a handful of Senators, a tribute from Guam, something to enhance the glory of Cambridge is an inevitable feature of the day's news. The current number of the Saturday Evening Post, however, in an advertisement of clothing made by Hart, Schaffner and Marx, delivers a direct blow to the fair name of Harvard in a criticism which demands immediate and thorough reform...
When F. V. Morley, brother of thunderer upon the left Christopher Morley, set sail with two friends down the Thames? in their converted ship's lifeboat Wife of Bath he naturally found many such bits of rare Anglicana as the Martyr's epitaph above. Young Morley, like his columnist-novelist brother, is one of those for whom any river will wimple with apt allusion. Half the poets of England creep into Mr. Morley's book, a pat line or stanza from each. And he can himself do such sure telling bits as: "The first lock, by Inglesham Round House, holds...