Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Huntington who buys things. Last week it was a collection of the letters of Mary Queen of Scots, and her son, James I of England. Other items have announced that this Mr. Huntington bought Gainsborough's "Blue Boy," and the best Gutenberg Bible in existence, and that very rare object, a first folio of Shakespeare, and a first edition of Hamlet, and . . . But the "Blue Boy" and the Bible aside, what sort of man, people have wondered, is Mr. Huntington...
...rhinoc'rus" was among the horde of beasts, birds and reptiles captured by Dr. Mann, but there were: a shoebill stork* and some 400 other birds including hawks, crested tawny eagles, white-headed vultures, paradise finches, rare parrots; an elephant shrew; the largest leopard in captivity; civet cats, water mongooses, baboons, purple-faced monkeys, hyenas. Among the antelopes quarantined at Boston were five impalla, most graceful of their family; a baby eland, blind in one eye from the blazing grass in which he was captured; several dik-diks, no bigger than jackrabbits...
Roald Amundsen, Polar pilgrim: "The trophies of my recent three year Arctic trip have been stolen from their packing cases, somewhere in transit through customs. The cases arrived at Oslo, Norway, via Seattle, containing only straw. I lost rare skins, a cinema camera with many feet of film, and many priceless scientific objects. I am thankful, however, that my scientific records escaped...
Soon afterward, His Holiness married his niece, Louise Ratti, to Marquis Eduardo Persichetti, Secretary to the Nicaraguan legation to the Vatican, onetime Chamberlain of the Cape and Sword under Popes Benedict XV and the present Pius. Marriages officiated by the Pope are very rare. His Holiness presented the bride with four artistic bookcases, each containing 25 volumes, which he had selected himself, pertaining to the duties of a Christian wife and mother. After the nuptials, His Holiness delivered an address, in which he deplored modern laxity in customs and dress. The newly married pair and a few special guests were...
...Harvard's religion is a religion of and for the individual, if he wants it. If it may seem to some outsiders that not many Harvard men want it, one must remember that Harvard, even in this blatant age, cherishes the rare virtue of understatement. At any rate, the choice is the business of the individual