Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...office on the town's main street, she is "Miss Mollie." Some of them can remember when Miss Mollie used to give them candy in an envelope if there was no mail for them. In a town renowned for apocryphal anecdote, dignified little Miss Mollie has the rare distinction of figuring in none...
...Round Athletic Sportsman (to 1889), Scientist supreme: all ologies, Ex Fancy amateur Dancer. . . ." He wrote crank letters to the newspapers. His letterhead: "Mahatma Dr. Louis M. Eilshemius, M.A. etc., Mightiest Mind and Wonder of the Worlds, Supreme Parnassian and Grand Transcendant Eagle of Art." His paintings, on the rare occasions he could get them shown, brought horse laughs from critics and public alike...
...rare," the article continues, "is the work that it will eventually be recovered, but not before 10 or 15 years," all of which will be most reassuring when the deed does occur...
...episode in the life of a middle-aged man with a middle-aging wife (Edna Best). In Hollywood's current concern with musicians, it plays a thin, modest, molto andante treble to such thumping pictures as They Shall Have Music (Jascha Heifetz), The Star Maker (Walter Dam-rosch). Rare top notes are contributed by Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's leading cinemactress, whose grave good looks, lit by a big-mouthed smile, make her one of the most promising Scandinavian exports since Garbo...
...past issue of the Lowell House Chronicle. Proudly it characterized Jullan Lowell Coolidge as a "living legend," Lovingly it described these quirks of habit well known to local mathematicians since the beginning of the century, even better known to Bellboys since the House was built. Such affection is a rare tribute to the man who has proved himself not only a scholar and a teacher, but a successful pioneer Housemaster...