Word: rare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third day the Chamber doors were opened and the Senate met publicly to do its highest duty. The gallery was packed for this rare and dramatic moment in constitutional history. Eighty-four Senators were in their seats. Vice President Garner had stepped aside to let Senator Pittman preside. Three empty black leather chairs stood in a row below the dais on the Republican side of the Chamber; Representative Hobbs and his fellow-prosecutors felt it more fitting to be absent when the Senate vote was taken. Three more black leather chairs stood on the Democratic side. The centre...
Lean, birdlike Mrs. Anthony Eden made one of her extremely rare public appearances last week. To the members of the Conservative Women's Society, the wife of Britain's Foreign Minister declared: "I find myself with a husband who is working 16 hours a day. A lull in all the hurly-burly of international politics would be very welcome to me for it has made a diplomacy widow...
CALIFORNIA IN THE FIFTIES-Introduction and Explanatory Text by Douglas S. Watson-John Howell: San Francisco ($10 to $150). Rare collection of 50 early lithographs (1855-1861) of California, beautifully reproduced in a limited edition (1,000 copies). Collectors should jump at it. Famed U. S. Printer Edwin Grabhorn supervised the book's typography, design...
...payments on its bonds in 1932. Promptly mustered was a bondholders' protective committee chairmanned by Boston's W. (for Willard) Eugene McGregor, who had been with Harris, Forbes & Co. when that banking house marketed the Price Bos. bonds to the public. Last week Banker McGregor earned the rare distinction of having protected his bondholders so well that they will get 100? on the dollar and back interest to boot...
...Louis, Detroit. It played to capacity audiences in cities which had never seen a ballet. There were sold-out houses in Little Rock, Ark., El Paso, Tex., Portland, Me. In Brockton, Mass., a leading citizen was impressed because the ballet's appearance there was on of the rare occasions when he had known his townsfolk to turn out in formal evening clothes...