Word: curios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates at Columbia. Said he of his father in Manhattan last week: "He neither smokes nor drinks. His only hobby is curio collecting. Every evening from 7 to 8 he sits with his curios. Sometimes he will set out a rare piece he has recently acquired and leave it out for a few days, but after that it goes with the others into...
Author Novello, an assiduous London partygoer, has accurately noted many a curio of London theatrical parties. Present at this one are two celebrities: famed Mrs. Patrick Campbell as a famed "Mrs. MacDonald," and able Cecilia ("Cissie") Loftus. A Party projects such a party completely, including onlookers' boredom and painted embarrassment for the participants...
...youngsters-in some small degree at least -unconsciously hate parents of the same sex, are erotically attracted to parents of the opposite sex. Thirty-three years have passed since Die Traumdeutung was published. Today Sigmund Freud, ill and old (77), almost never emerges from the seclusion of his curio-filled Vienna home. His work has been honored, but it has also been severely criticized. Many a onetime disciple has drifted away, revising, overhauling, stripping the flesh from the impregnable skeleton of the original discovery and clothing it anew. One early disciple. Dr. Alfred Adler, discovered the Inferiority Complex, whose wide...
...suffers from lethargic pace, a lack of action elsewhere than in highly atmospheric battle-scenes. Barbara Stanwyck is satisfactory as Megan Davis but the most noteworthy female member of the cast is Toshia Mori, a sloe-eyed Japanese girl whom Director Frank Capra discovered in a Los Angeles curio shop, hired for the part of the ex-mistress...
...murdered; and the police never come. THE MURDER OF CAROLINE BUNDY- Alice Campbell-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). An errant swindler renews the search for the Holy Grail, with murder by the way. THOSE SEVEN ALIBIS-Charles G. Booth -Morrow ($2). The evil smile of a marble face changes a curio shop to a dueling ground; seven suspects for a slayer...