Word: curio
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directness arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first time, constitutes good bait for the reader. Unfortunately, the pace slows down after this...
...ladies, the most intriguing is Diane. "People were quite ready to describe her as stupid, but her mouth was so red that everything she said seemed intelligent to me." Other stories concern a Chinese curio hunt in which one of the most remarkable curios is a lady's virtue; a treasure hunt which comes near to being a civil war; a horse of Genghis Khan...
...bronze statuettes had disappeared entirely. Detectives investigated, apprehended a ragpicker and three lads of 15, his Janissaries. This individual, coveting the statuettes, had sent the scalawags to cadge them, instructed them to perpetrate malicious mischief upon The First Man that it might the pore fittingly become his junkshop. A curio dealer named Vialatte had received the stolen properties. All were jailed...
...wizened attendants of the playhouses looked at each other and pinched their wrinkled ears. Had Fate suddenly peeled a quarter-century away and made them young again? Surely this was not a modern musical adventure, despite its stock of radio and crossword puzzle jests. It was, rather, a curio dug up from the old downtown days. It had a soldier named Bang Bang, an ingenue named Fli Wun, a prince named Cha Ming, bandits named Hi and Lo. It had a plot about a Chinese Princess who fell in love with a voice; the voice kidnaped her and turned...
Percy Hammond ?"A delirious curio...