Word: singular
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Duelling is forbidden by law, as it is in most other European countries, but Hungarian Deputies and Ministers seem singular exceptions...
Fanshastics. This singular title fills one with a foreboding of dislocated locution due to alcohol. Such an impression should be banished. " Fantastics" is applied to husbands by Grace George, welcomed as a perfect description by Annie O'Tandy (Laura Hope Crews), mispronounced by her thereafter. The title was later changed to Merry Wives of Gotham...
...consistently efficient Teutons seem again to have placed their fingers on the pulse of progress with the institution of a new dramatic training school at the University of Berlin. With singular shrewdness they have avoided the conventional. The course omits from its subscribers preliminary playwrights and actresses avid for experience. It caters solely to directors, regisseurs, critics...
...Rendezvous. So flamboyant was the melodrama of this singular narrative of the downtrodden royal party of Russia that certain commentators took it to be satire...
...hotel that Mr. Dreiser calls the "wayplace of the fallen;" old Samuel Clampitt's junkyard on 135th Street by the Harlem River, with its stuttering hunched proprietor who kept savage Great Danes in his yard-Mr. Dreiser can take you to them all and many other singular nooks beside. A guide who has had extraordinary opportunities for observing every changing aspect of a great and diverse city for more than IS years, who has a curious, stumbling power for description, he can set before you with every detail of reality, the queer places, persons and events that...