Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...seldom that a young diplomat is appointed to an ambassadorship without first having served as a minister to some relatively unimportant country. A recent case in the German diplomatic service is that of the now German Ambassador to France, Dr. von Hoesch, who was Counselor of the Embassy in Paris before being elevated to his present rank. However, Dr. von Prittwitz is reputedly one of the cleverest diplomats in the employ of the Reich and one that apparently enjoys the full confidence of his superiors in the Wilhelmstrasse...
...about her work but seldom subtle in its execution. Daring arrays of color, learned on the Corn wall coast, are typical. Influenced as are almost all artists by modern tendencies, her feet remain resolutely on the ground. She was the first foreign woman chosen to serve on the Carnegie International Jury (1922). She loves working out-of-doors. She is 50. Through all her work runs a hard streak of sanity. She seems what many artists would hesitate to seem - completely wholesome. The dancing, the grace, the figure of Pavlowa are among her chief idola tries. She has amazing versatility...
...burden with undergraduate managers, and those which are managed entirely by undergraduates, have been determined by experience, and smoothly and on the whole painlessly demarked. Those who are used to breathe the air of freedom are not likely to wave the red flag of rebellion, and it is seldom that it is waved in Cambridge...
...Lord Dunsany's dream play, much read in schools and seldom played, appeared last week. A meagre English wage earner disappears over the hills of dreams into an Eastern land. He murders the ruler; rules in his stead; smiles at his consort, a fair but evil-tempered English girl. She plots his death with an envious sheik; he escapes through a secret door; awakes; relieved that life is monotonous, secure. This difficult, often beautiful fantasy was given by the resolute group that is left from the defunct Neighborhood Playhouse.* They gave it well on an obviously limited expense account...
...lecture system in conjunction with tutorial work--is most logical in consideration of the lower standards of the American secondary schools. Furthermore the plan has the merits of joining the best features of the lecture regime with the indubitable benefits of conferences with one's tutor. While it is seldom wise to make generalizations, one might say that the American student mind is less fitted than the English for wholesale tutorial assistance to the exclusion of the course system. A larger percentage of American youth goes to college and consequently, in reality if not in theory, a smaller percentage...