Word: curio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...miserly and almost?not quite?inhuman old uncle who has previously cheated her father and would apparently prefer to see her starve to death. It is in the midst of this undertaking, however, that accident opens a more brilliant prospect. The family of Helmut Mylius, a curio dealer, has been kept by him in a state of semi-starvation, shabbiness and sullen despair on the plea of extreme poverty. Ulrika discovers that Mylius is in reality a multi-millionaire who has kept his fortune secret out of his excessive miserliness. She brilliantly inserts herself into the bosom of the family...
...long to get an introduction. . . . For quite a while? several years?I lived in another city, and did not see her often. . . . Yet even when she was inaccessible it gave me pleasure to think about her existence. . . . From time to time I sent her some odd trifle or curio that I hoped might please her; at first she returned them, faintly reproving, but with so calm a courtesy that I could see she did not resent my attentions. ... I could never understand how she got the reputation of being ill-natured or cold-hearted (there were some...
...Curio collectors will be wide awake during the next week or more because the Washington Elm on Garden Street will be cut down, if the action of the Cambridge park commissioners and Mayor Edward W. Quinn at a recent meeting is followed out. Although the tree will be carefully cut up and a piece sent to each state of the country and to the District of Columbia and Alaska, chips, perhaps sawdust, will be available for the nervy collector. The tree has been pronounced dead by a tree specialist and its overhanging limbs a menace. The seal of the city...
...second was an attempt to fly to Washington. The little machine, only 400 pounds in weight, ran into a storm, got out of control, and landed in a tree top near Paulsboro, N. J. Georges Barbot was slightly injured, the machine was wrecked. This was not all. Curio hunters stripped the aeroplane of engine, instruments and wings. With this inexcusable act of vandalism went Barbot's chances of repairing his flivver. Undaunted, however, he plans to build another and renew his attempts...