Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many of the phrases a Viceroy must use are formalized and stereotyped, but others of rare charm were added by Linlithgow. This was his way of telling the diverse and quarrelsome Indian people something they had heard from many a previous Viceroy and seldom or never believed -that he would be a Father to them: "God has indeed been good to me, for he has given me five children. They came into the world each one with a nature and with characteristics different from their brothers and sisters. I have tried my utmost to understand those differences and to deal...
...Seventy-three "executives in corporations and large business concerns" which apparently have not been taxed out of existence father 73 sons in the class. Last year the number in this group was 101, so it can readily be soon that a student i this category will soon be as rare as the "Laster's" son, or the boy whose father is an "ophthalmologist...
...psychic phenomena. For 30 years he has tracked down alleged miracles at home and abroad, slept in "haunted" houses, uncovered the frauds of tricksters. Having inherited money from his family, he spends about $5,000 yearly on his researches. He has acquired 14,000 volumes, some of them rare, on every phase of his hobby from talking animals to stage wizardry. He started doing magic tricks at the age of 8, published a psychic play called The Sceptic at 17. In 1925 he founded and became director of the National Laboratory for Psychical Research, which he later turned over...
...Planned for November a hotel exhibition of 10,000 rare books on psychic marvels...
...Pudding Magna. The whale, according to ancient decree is fish royal and belongs to their majesties. Consequently the inhabitants of Pudding Magna are not going to take matters into their own hands, although "all fishing was suspended in Pudding Bay; Pudding Magna was now scarcely inhabitable except on the rare occasions of a northerly ; the majority of the citizens bad field to the hills and were living in huts and caves." Appeals to the Mayor, to the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries proved fruitless, and eventually even the suit was adjourned. We compassionate the good citizens of Pudding Magna...