Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week, almost in spite of himself, Senator Stephens found himself in the public eye. He did not get up in the Senate, where his voice is seldom heard, but in the press, to which he released a correspondence he had been having with Secretary of Commerce Hoover...
...jurors also gazed at the Mesdames Sinclair, the defendant's wife and mother. They seldom miss a day at his trial. The wife entered court the first day of this trial wearing orchids...
Amateur theatricals when amusing are usually so through previous acquaintance with the actors. The audience is seldom enthralled by a remarkable performance; it derives its pleasure from seeing old friends in strange guises. Even more so is this the case when those old friends are completely out of their element; when boys take girls' parts or vice versa...
...standpoints," Professor Gras explained yesterday. "One can trace its economic and social life through centuries. I have photostats of records gathered from strong boxes of peasants, in the city hall, and in London of the exact activities of the hamlet since the year 1208. These unbroken records are very seldom found of English villages. In my study I want to emphasize, however, not only the remote past but its present condition...
...have lived long because I could laugh at anything," Chauncey Depew used to say. Arthur Brisbane, Hearst writer, who usually has a pat last word to say on any subject, observed that Napoleon, who seldom laughed, did not live 93 years but that "he did live more in one day than amiable Mr. Depew in all his 94 years...