Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...halt. Derricks and donkey engines were crawling with mice. Reservoirs and pipelines were clogged with drowned bodies. And still the mice came, endlessly advancing, followed by wheeling, crying flocks of birds great and small ?hawks, vultures, owls, magpies, jays, even (according to the Associated Press) wild ducks which, seldom carnivorous (except for fish), must presumably have mistaken the undulating carpet of rodents for a grey lake. Running amuck in the tumbling, whispering, squeaking herds went coyotes and wildcats; even a wolf was seen. But mankind had warred too well upon the natural enemies of mousedom* in Kern County...
There are times in the course of journalistic events, which come seldom perhaps to a metropolitan newspaper, more often to an undergraduate daily such as the Crimson, when it becomes an unpleasant duty to print all the news. The appearance of the latest recriminating statement by a former Harvard football player, substantiating and adding further to the previous charges against Princeton football, is just one such instance. Again the plea for this latest and most unsavory outburst is "it will help clear the air". The Crimson firmly believes that the air has already become decidedly murky and will become increasingly...
...also the famed cat of Visscher (1629-62), earliest of master line engravers, copies of which are now rare indeed. The prints used for Godey's Lady's Book reveal how widespread was puss's honored position in 19th Century society. The best ladies were seldom seen without a cat or cats, which were, in fact, so numerous that children fell over them in parlors...
Intermezzo's libretto, based on personal spats seldom so openly revealed, will cause some shrugging of shoulders, some sharper comment. Those who question the taste of such autobiography forget, possibly, that the world left him poor while he was creating some of its richest musical treasure; that publishers kept him whistling in the outer offices with immortal compositions grasped in numb fingers; that critics derided when first he wore his heart on his sleeve; that such experiences leave strange marks on sensitive natures...
...Poker is the greatest game of chance; but I very seldom...