Word: curios
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...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...
...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...