Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rosenwald, who had given millions of dollars to the Young Men's Christian Association, to the University of Chicago, to the founding of an industrial museum; and Samuel Insull, whose particular philanthropic hobby was Senatorial candidates. Suddenly, above all the howls of public utility scandal, came a voice, seldom heard in political squabbles, which said: "Insull is all right. He has done a lot for Chicago, and he can do whatever he wants with his own money...
...pleasures of mankind. He had a feeling for tools, horses, unmistakably American landscapes, Whitmanesque humanities. He would write a word like "roots" or "bones" as though it were thrusting out of his nature to the very depth of his discussion. He was an unabashed moralist, some said Puritan, but seldom to the neglect of art's due. Now there are left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators and appreciators...
...Bank of England is more symbolic of British fiscal solidarity than the chunky, workaday steam packets of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. "Gawd! I wisht I had a quid for every mile them 'P. & O.'s 'as steamed this year!" is an invocation not seldom heard along docks. Last week the incredible was revealed. The Directors of the P. & O. also wish that they had "a quid" (?1=$4.85) for every mile their ships steamed in 1925. Instead, for 16,450,000 miles of steaming, the company can show a profit of only...
...From this glorified dung hill, seat of an Imperial House which claims descent from the biblical Queen of Sheba, a formal protest reached the Secretariat of the League of Nations last week. Prince Regent Taffari of Abyssinia declared in the name of the retired Empress Zauditu that he has seldom met with foreigners who do not desire to possess themselves of Abyssinia and to destroy the independence of the Ethiopian Empire. Specifically he protested to the League that Abyssinia, a League-member-state since 1923, should be obliged to tolerate the existence of a series of Anglo-Italian notes, exchanged...
Vladimir Ilich Lenin bathed, personally, in blood as seldom as he could. When it became necessary to sign death warrants by the thousands and eventually by the tens of thousands, that task was passed on to Felix E. Dzerzhinsky, a Pole, the son of a little almost-bourgeois nobleman, the man whom Russian émigrés christened in sheer terror, "The Black Pope of Bolshevism." Last week he died in Moscow (of overwork...