Word: singular
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Christmas card Governor Pinchot received a large board on which was printed: "Shingle bells! Shingle bells ! Shingles all the day ! Merry Christmas!" Gertrude Stein in Paris: "Republicans are the only natural rulers in the country. When a Democrat gets in he only does so because of the singular seductiveness which he possesses. Cleveland had it and Wilson had it. Roosevelt was honestly elected, but he is not half as seductive as his predecessors...
There is in Leverett House a Dance Committee which we think, shows singular naivete. They have arranged the House Dance for December 6th, which every boy knows is the night when corks can be popped in the open to celebrate the return of American Independence. As we see it the Leverett Ball-Room will either be mercifully empty, its former habitue's staying away because of justified fear, or from justified business elsewhere; or more likely, it will be "One Grand Party." At any rate we shall certainly be on the premises...
...official displeasure at the earlier announcement, this retraction cannot come as much of a surprise. University Hall, wherever its sympathies may lie, obviously could not permit so gross a broach of hospitality, and University Hall does hold all of the cards. But the circumstances of the retraction were singular enough to make comment only just...
...your paper. Of his fondness for milkshakes and black canes, I know little and care even less. Perhaps his generosity to the blind newsdealer offsets his smug self-complacency. But to dismiss his contributions to historical scholarship and his activities as a teacher as "dull" or trivial shows a singular ignorance of the former, and a failure to appreciate the real wisdom underlying his teaching methods...
...noting the aura of British vigor apparent in your portrait of him, may guess that he comes of a family notable solely for its blustering militance. Such a guess would be incorrect. Garret Wellesley, Earl of Mornington and father of the first Wellington, had tastes which were singular indeed in the begetter of an Iron Duke. It is known to relatively few Americans, save such insatiable antiquaries as myself, that the Earl of Mornington was addicted to playing violin sonatas while seated in an armchair upholstered with orchid-colored velvet, composed numerous four-voiced glees, two of which were named...