Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking wise, local journalists wrote that tourists seldom learn of these cities' numerous resorts, mostly patronized by Canadians. Worst of Montreal Vice, opined local reporters, is the depression-bred habit of some impecunious high school girls, who earn pin money by stopping briefly after school in questionable houses, then go on home to their unsuspecting and respectable parents...
...round face have called him "that ugly little Jewish monkey." Once his name was mentioned by defendants in the recent Plot-Against-Stalin trial, farcical though that was, the Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs set secret police to see what they could "get" on Radek. In Russia such agents seldom fail on such assignments. The object in this case was to link Radek with Stalin's enemy, Trotsky...
Many of the phrases a Viceroy must use are formalized and stereotyped, but others of rare charm were added by Linlithgow. This was his way of telling the diverse and quarrelsome Indian people something they had heard from many a previous Viceroy and seldom or never believed -that he would be a Father to them: "God has indeed been good to me, for he has given me five children. They came into the world each one with a nature and with characteristics different from their brothers and sisters. I have tried my utmost to understand those differences and to deal...
...center of a vast collection of biographical data; every scrap of print about her that clipping bureaus could furnish--and for a dozen years her name was always copy--is carefully preserved. In view of this profusion, it is to the biographer's credit that his chronicle so seldom degenerates into a calendar...
...gloomy on the subject of world trade is Singer Manufacturing Co.'s venerable President Sir Douglas Alexander. At annual stockholders' meetings held in Manhattan by Singer in September, because it takes accountants eight months to make a report on Singer's outlandish business, Sir Douglas has seldom beamed since Singer lost $106,000,000 in the War ($84,300,000 in Russia). Black depression crept into Sir Douglas's cultivated voice in September 1933, when he had to report that Singer profits in the preceding year hit a low of $2,412,698. Last week...