Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...third work to be given publication in February is "Sheridan to Watson", a history of the English theatre and drama from 1800 to 1870 by E. B. Watson '12. This volume is illustrated from the rare originals in the Shaw Theatre Collection...
...they whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy with the kings, queens and knaves of a pack of cards. In the end all the royal cards are burnt, and this denouement seemed commonplace enough to most of the stolid Londoners. Here and there, however, there was one who remembered that...
...entourage and the last U. S. contingent of Holy Year pilgrims, for on Christmas Eve the Holy Doors close on this year at jubilee. For that ceremony they arrived in Naples in good time but they reached Rome late by one day to attend the resplendent, the rare Public (Extraordinary Consistory at which five cardinals received their red hats; and late by five days for Cardinal Hayes to add his placet (it pleases! or yes!) to the naming of four of these in Secret (or Ordinary) Consistory...
...matter of fact," said the Mayor, "the corner is no worse that that at DeWolfe Street, and accidents there are very rare. I am inclined to think it is the fault of the motorists, who see a good stretch of road ahead on Mt. Auburn Street, and start speeding up. It might almost be better for them if there were some big holes in the road." When asked if there had been any thought of providing the road with protective bumps, Mayor Quinn replied in the negative...
...Critic Van Vechten is not far wrong, for Haldane Macfall can write. He has an extraordinarily observant eye and an equally effective pen. He has the turn of the epigrammatist, but makes no ostentatious display of it. He has a mental balance that is quite above pessimism-a rare attribute in a realist. Neither moralist nor sentimentalist, he writes a thoroughly first rate novel simply by being an incisive observer with an ironic humor and a measurable amount of sympathy...