Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...search of the happiest subject, contemporary British novelists seldom look in their own industrial back yard, prefer instead when tired of the front-lawn and front-street side of English life to search in some other part of the world, especially where the climate is warm. As a traveler, Yorkshireman Eric Knight is no exception to the rest. As a writer he bristles with exceptions, the main one being that he has uncovered in a neglected corner of England's industrial back yard-the Yorkshire textile mill country-material for one of the sturdiest novels to cross the Atlantic...
...Usually he then has a dinner engagement, maybe several more engagements during the evening, but he likes to get home as early as possible to romp with his two adopted children, to see his wife who used to be his secretary when he was in Congress and who seldom appears publicly...
...visitor to the U. S. "would not find Negro and white Christians worshipping together before God, who is the Father of both. He would not find the employer and his factory workers meeting in the same place of worship. . . . The hungry, the insecure and the dispossessed he would seldom find in any church...
...Life Insurance ($26,000,000). Most of these companies' investments and other assets are held at their headquarters in Philadelphia. Protesting that they were mortally threatened, the life insurance companies talked of moving to suburban Ardmore or Bryn Mawr, launched against the tax a high-pressure campaign seldom equalled in Philadelphia except by the bumptious mayor himself (TIME...
...Born on the Vego Miller ranch, twin-colts to a mare named Twogo. All three doing well. Seldom are twins born in this animal kingdom and Miller states it is as rare as a Republican president...