Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will realize that Art with a capital A has created this picture. Its photography is scusitive and interprets as well as records. The actors are particularly convincing in their parts and benefit from the absence of love glorified in the Hollywood manner. Most important of all, if has that rare quality of pace which makes detail a powerful ally of action...
While he made painstaking laboratory tests and discussed the advisability of a rare operation, Mrs. Barber...
...late they have ceased to wonder, have realized that the institution has already started breaking up before their eyes. Since Mr. Hearst abdicated two years ago, six Hearst newspapers, one news service and one magazine have been sold or scrapped; Hearst radio stations cut from ten to three; rare Hearst treasures have been knocked down for $708,846; the value of all Hearst properties, estimated (too generously) at $200.000,000 in 1935, reduced to a fraction of that figure.-Just how far the public thinks the Hearst empire has progressed toward dissolution is neatly summed up in this lyric currently...
...splashiest and most exciting opening night in Federal Theatre history flocked jitterbugs, Nosey Parkers, Harlem, Cafe Society. To it also, with hands upon their apprehensive hearts, marched Gilbert & Sullivan diehards, to endure an hour and see injustice done. To it also-one of her rare first nights since her husband became President-went Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, brought the audience applauding to its feet as she sailed down the aisle...
There lives in Winthrop House a young man suffering from a peculiar ailment. He cannot get up in the morning. For that matter, he can just barely get up in the afternoon. He just loves to sleep. Now sleeping is no rare ailment at Harvard. The peculiar quality about this young man's ailment is that ordinary methods do not arouse him from slumber. The most potent and heavy-handed alarm clock, placed only a few inches from his ear, startles everyone else on the floor, but to our young man it is as soft breezes sighing in the trees...