Word: curiosa
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Through a delightful realm of fantasy, burlesque, satire, medieval curiosa and gentle moralizing wander countless strange folk, such as the Cockney knight, Sir Meliagrance ("Yes, Ma'am, in 'arf a minute"). Typical episode: Lancelot stuck his sword in the ground, and went over to examine the wound. . . . "You've cut open my liver" said the man accusingly...
...Ford what they are. For Yale men are sliding into a rut--a rut of Stoverism. The heart of every little Eli beats for one thing only: to be more like Dick Stover, heroic figure from the blue mists of Yale legend who was that most extraordinary of all curiosa, the typical Yale man. What position more enviable than living the life of Stover, the life of a good fellow, with evenings at Morry's, with the respect of all Freshmen, with the notoriety of a man who has made a name for himself in campus activities...
...design drove native workmen crazy. They visited sheiks, harems (a disappointment), native officials (most of them later assassinated), and the 24-year-old King of Iraq, a motoring enthusiast who had a Mercédès done in phosphorescent paint. Their collection of native lore ran to such curiosa as the law forbidding mermaids in the River Tigris (which ran through their yard) to marry human beings. They particularly liked Iraq love lore of the Arabian Nights sort...