Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Selling for manufacturers is seldom house-to-house canvassing: rather it means selling tangible goods for resale or to other business and industrial concerns...
Nonetheless a U. S. doctor is seldom prosecuted for performing a "criminal operation." He can generally claim that he did it to preserve the life or health of the woman, a legal obligation of his profession. After a search of Federal and state laws, Dr. Taussig assured doctors that their colleagues have performed therapeutic abortions without professional risk for any one of the following legitimate reasons: "1) very recent pregnancy; 2) general debility with loss of weight; 3) after suppurative appendicitis that has produced extensive adhesions; 4) after a previous Caesarean operation; 5) to prevent increasing prolapse of the pelvic...
...Boston's freight yards, police cars sounding sirens pulled up in front of No. 2 Holyoke Place, Cambridge, home of the Fly. A crowd came running at the sound, packed close around the big car from which Franklin Roosevelt emerged. "Boooh!" shouted voices in the rear. "Boo! Boo!" Seldom in his life had Franklin Roosevelt been booed. He looked straight ahead as he was helped toward the door of his Club...
...Samuel Nathaniel Behrman; Theatre Guild, producer). Like George Bernard Shaw, another regular contributor of wit & wisdom to the Theatre Guild, Playwright Behrman is no longer called upon to concoct a full-fledged drama every time he has assembled enough conversation for a three-act play. Therefore an informed playgoer seldom expects to find great vital issues being wrestled around a Behrman drawing room. What he does expect is a series of sage, civilized and exhaustive discussions on Problems of the Day. This he gets in full measure in End of Summer...
Like Thomas Wolfe (Look Homeward, Angel; Of Time and the River), Saroyan writes about himself, but in a more Whitmanesque vein: he is large, he contains multitudes. Touted as a short-story writer, mostly because his "stones" are written in prose, he seldom sets down a formal narrative. Most of his "stories" are poetic shouts-no less lyrical for being written in street-language with many a cuss word-swelling the chorus of a "Song of Myself." It might almost have been Saroyan who wrote...