Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Some men, who have been able to make a fortune early in life may be of great service to the community in public office, after retirement, but from my experience I think it rare that a man who has given all his early life to private affairs makes a good public official. It is very nearly essential that a public servant shall have started when young in public office, and whether he holds public office continually for years or not shall have acquired the faculty not of oratory, but of easy address, and of clear consecutive thinking and statements. This...
...fine actress, a rare artist of the kind that comes but once in a generation, a bit of a sorceress, if you ask me."?Alexander Woollcott...
...four players on the Harvard team, the present Intercollegiate champions," said a report of the United State Polo Associations. "Is such material as to have a pronounced effect on the future of the game. They are all players of considerable ability and rare promise. That they happen to be the sons of families in which polo has been played is not significant. There are as promising players at Yale and Princeton and the other institutions in the Intercollegiate Polo Association. College graduates interested in the game, who saw little or nothing of this sport in their undergraduate days, would...
...Koussevitsky conducted the performance with his usual verve and spirit and when that is said there is really no need for further comment. Mr. Koussevitsky has the faculty, unfortunately too rare, in conductors of getting the utmost out of the score as well as from the musicians under his baton. It has been said that an orchestra is largely the conductor, and this may be taken as a case in point. M. Koussevitsky brought the best out of the singers and players alike in a way worthy of the plaudits which the house showered upon...
With the acquisition of a rare portrait of Chief Justice Taney of the United States Supreme Court, the Harvard Law School has added another painting to its already large collection of poraraits of American and British jurists...