Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jimmy" has a growing fondness for things money can buy. As William F. Kenny was ready to give his last of a multi-million nickels to help his friend Alfred Emanuel Smith, so Publisher Paul Block (Newark Star-Eagle, Brooklyn Standard Union, Toledo Blade, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Duluth Herald) seldom counts the change where his friend. Mayor Walker, is concerned. The Mayor spends more nights and mornings in the Block suite at the Ritz than he does in his personal bed on St. Luke's place...
...three years the City Hall has seen Mayor Walker, seldom before the pigeon-splashed city clock has marked noon. Since the day Governor Smith singled him out of the State Senate for Job No. 3, much water has gone under political bridges. But Mayor Walker, though he was once president of Silver King Water Co. ("A Good Mixer"), is not the kind to care where the water goes...
...aggregation will be attempting to extend to ten its string of victories when it journeys to Providence this afternoon for a match with the Brown University racquet wielders. The Brown coach has not announced either his doubles combinations or the sixth man of his singles players, while Coach Cowles seldom picks his doubles groups until after the singles matches have been played...
Accordingly a single room, in which a light was seldom seen, sufficed him during his forty years of life in the college yard. It was totally bare of comforts. It contained no carpet, no stuffed furniture, no bookcase. The college library furnished the volumes he was at any time using, and these lay along the floor, beside his dictionary, his shoes, and the box that contained the sick chicken. A single bare table held the book he had just laid down, together with a Greek newspaper, a silver watch, a cravat, a paper package or two, and some scraps...
...blue cloak a selection of bottles, or of sweetmeats, or of eggs would be borne to a friend's house, where for an hour the old man sat in dignity, and calm, opening and closing his eyes and his jack-knife; uttering meanwhile detached remarks, wise, gruff, biting, yet seldom lacking a kernal of kindness, till bedtime came, nine o'clock, and he was gone, the gifts--if thanks were feared--left in a chair by the door...