Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...amateurs, and stuffy patronesses in one undersized barn. Bert Lytell and Mady Christians play the roles of the guest stars--but they act as if they thought they were the guests at the Copley as well as at Stockton, playing their parts purely on instinct and experience, with a singular lack of originality or enthusiasm. Most of their supporting cast show a vast amount of the enthusiasm the stars lack--but very little else. The only relief in the entire play is provided by Audrey Christie, who acts a tough little trouper with a shrewdness and verve that is beautiful...
Drop a dime in a Soundies (the word apparently has no singular form) and you see a three-minute film, with musical accompaniment, projected on the box's 24-by-18-inch plastic screen. The $695 box is designed to hold 1,000 ft. of 16-mm. film, made for Mills by James Roosevelt's Globe Productions in Hollywood. There is no direct corporate connection between Mills and Globe. But the film will be leased to box owners, at $17.50 per reel for the first week, less later, by a projected Soundies Distributing Corp. of America...
...time for Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson's "dark tideless floods of nothingness." Soon Poet T. S. Eliot would find Boston "the wasteland of all the modern cities where the dry stone gave no sound of water" while Boston's "learned religiosity evoked in him a singular mode of Christianity-small faith, less hope, and no charity...
Concluded Professor Witty: "It is singular that the gifted Negro child has heretofore been considered an anomaly. The survey gives evidence that we may discover large numbers of children of superior intelligence who are at present unrecognized...