Word: rarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...details of the years 1897-1906 in which radium was discovered form a saga of heroism. Not long after her marriage in 1895, Marie Curie, became interested in the experiments of Henri Becquerel on the salts of the rare metal, uranium. He had found that they emitted certain penetrating rays. Marie Curie took up this work, found that another element, thorium, behaved similarly, and that certain complex minerals also showed radioactivity, which was not, however, proportionate to the quantities of uranium or thorium in them. Pierre Curie, whose main researches up to that time had been on the physics...
According to Mr. Walter T. Spence, one of the best known of London dealers in rare books and whose "Forty Years in My Bookshop" was recently published by Houghton Mifflin Company, the forgery of autobiography is not so common a pursuit for the indigent and unscrupulous intelligensia as it was forty years ago. In those days such incidents as the following were not uncommon. "A workingman came into my shop with a book under his arm:--Hone's Everyday Book, 1839, with a good many MS. marginal notes signed or initialled "Charles Lamb." He said...
...lesser role. The Club will lose a great deal when these two cease to act in its plays. But it has made a "find" in Sanchez. "Excellent" is the only word to describe his playing of the clown; for he has both animation and, what is far more rare, a humorous restraint that leaves the spectator watching with keen anticipation for his entrances. Miss Googins has the most stilted role with which I have ever seen her burdened; but I was not surprised to find that she always contrived to keep it from even an approach to woodenness. The rest...
Tiger Rose. Ulric addicts will derive a curious mixture of sensations from this picture. The rare and radiant Lenore, whose wiry wickedness David Belasco has always turned to virtue just before the final curtain, has undergone a metamorphosis. Both her personality and appearance seem altered. She is still a good actress but Kiki no more. The play, many will remember, is No. 9,824 in the Canadian Royal Northwest Mounted Police stories. They always get their audience...
...first edition of "Robinson Crusoe," published in 1719, and a copy of the first English translation of Don Quixote, dated 1620, are among the rare and valuable old books, which have just been placed on exhibition, in the Widener room of the Library, where they will remain through-out the week...