Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With the emphasis which, in late years especially, has been laid on the whole question of so-called "Nordic supremacy", there comes up more actively than ever the complicated and well-nigh insolvable problem of rare mixtures. Do, as a general thing, groups of people of pure race, pure race, pure Nordic or pure Hebraic for example, exhibit stronger and more vital characteristics than other groups which might be composed of mixtures of these two races...
...Eminence, George William Cardinal Mundelein of Chicago: "The very rare instance when a Catholic prelate 'boosts' a cinema show happened last week, when the pictures of last summer's Eucharistic Congress at Chicago were shown under my patronage at the Jolson Theatre, Manhattan. Of the show, His Eminence, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of New York said: 'The events of the Congress itself naturally are lived over again in a way to renew the spiritual fervor of our Catholic people and to appeal once more to our non-Catholic brethren whose sympathetic and reverend interest will never...
...when Josef Hofmann, aged 11, his feet barely touching the pedals, was the U. S. musical sensation of the day (1887). Compelled by the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to withdraw, he studied under Anton Rubinstein, "lion with the velvet paw." His playing is noted for its rare melodious and technically flawless musicianship...
...difficult to find some-thing " 'soft, round, velvety,'-and respectable." But Playwright Molnar is nothing if not ingenious. He has even given Johann Dwornits-chek, footman, a personality. Ralph Nairn plays the part. The entire cast, headed by Holbrook Blinn, ably supports the playwright in offering a rare, charming, skilful entertainment, one that wise play-goers will not overlook...
...metropolitan press for a twelvemonth. The curtain rises on a romantic, and dimly lighted scene, the camp of the Riffian chieftain, the baffling Red Shadow. The Song of the Volga Boatmen contributes its mite as the tribesmen open the play with the Riding song of the Riffs, a rare gem in basso profundo, with excellent time and almost no tune, which will defy college men all over the country who sing tenor and aspire to bass...