Word: singularly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Peking opera hit Paris last week, and Paris was fascinated. "The most beautiful spectacle in the world," marveled the weekly Carrefour, "More than original and singular . . . prodigious," said Le Figaro. "By comparison," added the awed Arts, "Frenchmen see themselves as barbarians." Night after night, the company, official representative of the People's Republic of China to Paris' International Theater Festival, exploded like a magnum of vintage champagne...
...Reed slowly turned to Communism--finally attaining leadership in Russia itself. Four years after graduation, in 1914, Lippmann had already written an article, "The Legendary John Reed." By 1920, when Reed died in Moscow, he was a real myth, probably one of the most singular of the University's graduates. The singular class of 1910's 25th reunion report commented, "The soul of this man whom we knews and loved goes marching on in the garments of a Soviet saint, and in his name in our own land little struggling clubs of painters and writers attack the foundation...
...keeping him from his ambitious project of clearing the deadwood from French industry and agriculture. Largely, Mendes-France's fall was due to the personal hatreds and the petty politics of some members of the National Assembly. Mendes-France's defeat was also undoubtedly due tin part of his singular method of waging politics. Although his blunt manner won the support of large parts of the population at large, his sharp blunt manner won the support of large parts to steamroller tactics won him many unnecessary enemies in the Assembly...
Nothing, of course, could be more inconsequential than the continual doings and undoings of the Conservative Club, last spring's version of the shaggy dog story. The group has since lost its straight man from the Class of '29, but, with a singular wit, it has persevered. Only one could menaces our pleasure in the club's antics: every down, it is said, wants to play Hamlet and the Conservatives are now evincing an interest in learning something about politics...
...went back to singing. Byron was word-perfect in his monster role before he was out of his teens. Henceforth, the clubfoot and the sensitive heart hid themselves in the disguise of a cold, cloven-hoofed devil. On his brow, at a moment's notice, would appear "that singular scowl" which caused one acquaintance to exclaim that he "had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead." A Pair of Stays. A Miss Elizabeth Pigot had the honor of discovering that Byron was addicted to poetry. When she read him some poems of Burns...