Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every year some big city daily changes owners. But on the fingers of one hand can be counted the big city newspapers which have been launched, new, in the last 20 years. So it was a rare event when a new journalistic team this week got down to the work of creating such a paper. Their aim: not simply another but a new kind of newspaper, for New York City...
Bargain. For rare book buyers, the current Scribner Book Store catalogue announces a first edition of The Communist Manifesto. Price...
...mont's life has a freshness and enthusiasm rare in the records of U. S. public men. He was a galloping, theatrical character-when his first daughter was born, he spread a ragged, wind-whipped flag over Jessie's bed, saying, "This flag was raised over the highest peak of the Rocky Mountains. . . ." Even his calculations were naive and almost innocent, as when he stealthily evaded the War Department when he took a howitzer (for which he had no use) on his third expedition to the West. Courageous, spirited, good-humored and humorless, he seems in Allan Nevins...
Including all of the recordings of Benny's band and many rare examples of early swing, the gift will form the nucleus of a complete library of popular American music. The maestro has promised to send the Theatre Collection all his future recordings...
This week the Original Amateur Hour entered its fifth year with no sign of nagging. The Major was still there in rare, sonorous voice ("A'spinning goes our weekly wheel of fortune . . . around, around she goes, and where she stops, nobody knows. . . .") and the supply of amateurs showed no sign of diminishing. Still among the top ten programs on the air, it has an unwavering weekly audience...