Word: singular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when murder is committed in the same room with the picture, you are not allowed to see red paint sweating forth on the fingers; the camera waits till the crime is complete, then comes back and finds it there. Reverence for literature often goes hand in hand with this singular lack of instinct for cinematic storytelling...
...building was erected privately in 1880 to serve as a dormitory for students at the College and was named after the real-estate agent. It was bought by the University in 1918, and has been used severely by generations of undergraduates since. By a singular bit of management, the name of the Hall and the block numbers were finally painted on the doors last month...
...Senate from Butler's report: "Mexico is a land of beautiful mountains.. ."; of El Salvador, "this little country is picturesque"; of Colombia, "it is full of mountains"; of Chile, it is "long and narrow."Said Senator Guffey drily: "[These observations] show him to be a man of singular powers of observation...
...Singular Satisfaction. In London, the British Admiralty issued a ruling entitled "Monocular Vision," announcing that so long as one's duties were not interfered with, it would be quite all right for any naval rating (seaman) to wear a monocle...
Said the London Times last fortnight in its Literary Supplement: "A book so real, austere, singular, rugged and wild as the world it depicts, as though hewn from the basalt rock, such monumental sculpture as Travels in Arabia Deserta cannot be forever ignored. Yet it needed a world war to awaken the English people to their possession of a treasure which may stand an age and beyond like Stonehenge. . . . He could make no compromise with the English he called 'Victorian and Costermongery.' Forty years ago he wrote to Doctor Hogarth: 'My main intention was not so much...