Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Butchers and bons mots, liver and literature are seldom paired except inverse libre, at least until the advent of a genius. Such a genius is Bennie Sabitino of Long Island City. Saturday morning he opened there an "Intellectual Meat Market" where the cultured customer can enjoy "a conversation with him on any question involving scientific, philosophical, artistic, and literary considerations". Thus for once arts and the crafts are in harmony, and a criterion for future artists who find art ill paid, and future savants who find saving sage bulks from the building where Bennie works. Like the man who first...
...Seldom does Mr. Walter Duranty, able Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, indulge himself in any but the most decorous nouns and adjectives. Last week a suppressed flair for a style more incarnadine and virile apparently overcame him. He filed a long despatch, which ran in part as follows...
...November elections in an off year are seldom a matter of excitement, and 1925 is decidedly an off year between the Presidential year of '24 and the Congressional year...
...tickets, while the price for couples is four dollars. Tickets may be secured daily at the newstand between 9 and 4 o'clock. The Union management urges all members who are planning to attend to secure tickets promptly. The supply of tickets on the night of the dance has seldom been equal to the demand, and this year is not expected to be an exception...
There is a leisurely and poetic thoroughness about the piece which should recommend it to many. There is a fair performance by Ruth Chatterton, a good one by Ralph Forbes and an extraordinarily fine one by Robert Loraine, seasoned and admirable English actor who is too seldom lured to our actor-thin theatre...