Word: curios
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...parlor-sized steam engine right in the parlor it is sized to fit. His wife wanly observes: "Some times I even wish he'd get interested in another woman." Another character, the father of a crowded and bewildered family, is at last able to explain to them the curio which has long adorned their mantelpiece - "Professor Caswell tells me this damn thing happens to be a Ubangi symbol of fertility." Another woebegone figure, a chicken farmer, is discovering the literal truth of the description on his chicken feed, "Lay or Bust." The stubborn hens are exploding all over...
...heavier than in her salad days, but still trim in the legs, hypnotic in the eyes. They also found her afflicted with stage fright. The ex-siren told reporters she did the stunt as a favor to friends, had no idea of trying a comeback, then returned to the curio-cluttered mansion where she has long been one of Hollywood's most diligent and lavish hostesses...
Glib, wild-haired Musicomedian Danny Kaye, working like a turkey gobbler, held up the auction's prize piece. It was not precious. It was a curio: Comic Jack Benny's violin, "Old Love In Bloom"-a $75 imitation Amati. Everyone present knew that only a war could have persuaded Benny to part with the old prop which had provided him with half his gags for the last 20 years. Before anyone could make a bid an attendant rushed up to Auctioneer Kaye with a letter. He opened it and gulped: "I have...
...Singapore, renamed Shonan (Light of the South), the slim statue of the modern city's founder, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, had been moved indoors to serve as a curio in the museum. Failure of imports threatened the city with famine...
...whaling ships, brought home souvenirs wrought by peoples and races in the East and South Seas untouched by the white man. Many a sea-captain must have been surprised to find, on returning home, that some basket or spear-head which he had picked up as a mere curio was sought after by the scolarly directors of a pioneer museum as an item both priceless and probably never again to be duplicated...