Word: raring
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...City Council replaced its old Board of Aldermen, and WNYC moved in to broadcast the sessions. In no time this unique program had an estimated 750,000 listeners. East Side stores, bars, cabbies, business executives, housewives tuned it in regularly. There were arguments fit to kill, rare old Fourth-Ward oratory, Tweedledums-&-dees all over the house. One week listeners might be treated to an afternoon of old Roman allegory, in re the city's garbage policy. Democrat Hugh Quinn and the late Laborite B. Charney Vladeck once had it hot & heavy over their respective forefathers. Said Vladeck...
...Ballou introduces her subject with an overwritten essay, then settles down to a straightforward, less flighty account of Ella's dreamy girlhood in an irritable and defeated Wisconsin farm family, her indefatigable poem writing (sometimes eight a day), her conquering arrival in Milwaukee, her instinctive refusal of such rare, insufficiently flattering criticism as Julia Ward Howe's ("she thought [Ella's ability] might be developed into real talent with study and hard work"), her fatal love of making a sensation, gratified by the tempest of propriety that erected Poems of Passion, her brief affair with James Whitcomb...
Among the 2,742 items of first-editions or editions of special interest are rare issues of the work of Martin Luther, an almost complete collection of books tracing the history of lyrics and hymnology in Germany during the 16th century, thirty first-editions of Goethe, and the complete thirty-three volume works of Frederick the Great which were produced for and belonged to the Emperor Frederick...
Included in the herbarium are some 15,000 different species of this rare flower, representing all the colors of the rainbow; some with leaves, others without; and some that grow and blossom underground. A majority of the flowers grew on rocks and in trees, but there are some non-wild and common orchids of the type worn in this country...
...Rare is the small stockholder who bothers to go to annual stockholders' meetings or even answer proxy requests. So complacent are the stockholders of General Mills Co. ("Gold Medal Flour," "Wheaties," etc.), who have been paid $6 preferred and $3 common dividends-all earned-every year since 1929, that last summer moose-tall, chipmunk-cheeked Chairman James F. Bell arrived speech in hand at his annual meeting, to find 6,716 common stockholders absent,three present...