Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...received by the secretary of the class of 1912, in charge of the reunion of his class here on classday, next Wednesday, Further investigation revealed that the telegram was signed by Kermit Roosevelt '12, recently returned from a scientific expedition to Asia, and that his message referred to a rare sheep found in the uplands of the East, and which the son of the former President is presenting to the University...
Kermit Roosevelt and his brother Theodore Jr., returned recently from an expedition to the mountain fast-nesses of Asia, undertaken in the interests of the Field Museum of Chicago. The rare Ovis Poli was one of the baits that lured the expedition eastward, and the specimen that is to be presented to Harvard is the first one to make its appearance in New England...
MAPE, THE WORLD OF ILLUSION- Andre Maurois-Appleton ($2.50). Enchanting as the world of illusion may be, it becomes tedious when created or interpreted by colorless characters. The author of Ariel (that rare book) has here expended his remarkable power of lucid biographical romancing upon two fruitless subjects out of the three chosen. The power remains admirable, but the reading palls. The young Goethe's windy sentimentality for Charlotte Buff is shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with...
...surface, there are few signs that there is any aesthetic content there. The best things in this book are as shapeless as the mountains that obsess their author. There is either a tremendous and subtle artistry in this seeming shapelessness or else Mr. Lindsay is gifted with a rare instinct for the proper thing to do, an instinct so profound that he does not comprehend it himself or even realize that it is there...
...wedding presents were not listed for publication, and only a few intimate friends were allowed to see them. A few, however, are known: the Cabinet sent a huge silver tray, appropriately inscribed; lace, silver and handsomely bound books there were in profusion; Ambassador Esme Howard sent a rare and handsome edition of Don Quixote...