Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Baba Goes to Town" is a good musical comedy but a mediocre political satire. It makes people laugh but seldom think, ergo the perfect evening's relation. Some of the wisecracks are excellent, others can be soon hours before they come...
...sterilization at Beloit under Lulu Coyner was roughly the equivalent of a slap on the wrist at more conventional finishing schools; that school records showed one girl was sterilized because she had a bad temper, others because they were "incorrigible," "obstreperous" or partial to "fights;" that parents' pleas seldom influenced Lulu Coyner's and the board's decisions to incapacitate almost one half of her charges for childbirth...
...children flash bits of unfamiliar information on them, the pupils are covering the regular school curriculum (minus reading, in which they need no instruction) in one-half the normal time. Thus they are free to spend the rest of the day investigating things the elementary public-school child seldom learns-French, poetry, music appreciation (via radio) and are doing independent research into such common aspects of civilization as lighting, transportation. Ninety per cent read newspapers daily, discourse on the Chinese war and the Roosevelt fiscal policy...
...Baron: "He takes charge of paying the gratuity to Mary Broad." This letter set investigators whoofing on the trail of another promising secret of Boswell's abundant life. At trail's end was: no dirt, as had been half expected, but further data on a seldom-mentioned side of the little man-his interest in prison reform. Mary Broad, it turns out, was the alias of one Mary Bryant, who was convicted in 1786 of "stealing on the highway" and transported to the Australian prison colony. She escaped from there, was recaptured and finally returned to Newgate Prison...
...help carvin' I jes' does it. It's like when you're leavin' here you're goin' home. Well, I know I'm goin' to carve. Jesus has planted the seed of carvin' in me." Curiously, Sculptor Edmondson seldom goes to church, but likes to shout and praise God while carving. Unlike most religious Negroes, William Edmondson never quotes the Bible. "The oney time," said he last week, "as I tried to read the Bible against God's wishes all the leaves came out." He says that...