Word: singularities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gauthier is the sort of person who arouses curiosity and imagination. She is a little French Canadian, dark, eager eyed and sprightly. Her movements are rapid and unaffected. A glance at her reveals a singular flame of honesty and intelligence. She sings with a pretty voice and a simply astounding amount of understanding, artistry and grace. With the sort of music she sings, a mere correct intonation of the ear-confounding sounds is an astonishment. In the ensemble of impressions, this little woman wears a strangely exotic...
...Neapolitan songs. These are peculiarly characteristic of Naples, which has a mood unlike that of any other city. Its citizens have certain mannerisms of speech, bearing and thought that are exceedingly difficult for the outsider to produce. Singers from the north of Italy try vainly to catch the singular nuances of the Neapolitan songs. They sing the notes correctly, and achieve about the effect of an orchestra of good musicians playing jazz-accurately on the beat. But when Isa Kremer intones the chants of Naples, you might easily mistake her for a Neapolitan...
...story of the red path of hatred, the gradual poisoning of a man's mind and body and soul. And yet, with all his singular craft and dark poetic power, Mr. Freeman is not entirely convincing here...
...meetings has found scant faver. If the college keeps on growing, no hall built in these times will suffice; and the steady cost of maintenance for only sporadic uses make the plan economically unsound. Some thinkers have devised a scheme of a building part hall and part gymnasium. A singular marriage. Some graduates hold that the memorial shouldn't be of any base "utilitarian" character, but purely a work of art, monument, sculptural or both...
...very large. She was huge in every sense, weighing much more than three hundred pounds and yet there was a singular grace in her form and her movements. Her limbs we of the girth of breadfruit-trees, and her bosom was as broad and deep as that of the great June of Rome, but her hands were beautiful, like a plump baby's with fascinating creases at the wrists, and long, tapering fingers. Her limbs eyes were hazel, and they were very brilliant when she was merry or excited. Her expansive face had no lines in it, and her mouth...