Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold rainy day last week, curious Parisians packed a dingy courtroom in the Palais de Justice to hear a red-robed judge pronounce sentence on Mathilde Carre. She was a pert, petite woman with bangs -the very picture of a Parisian gamine. The French thought they understood Mathilde, though they could not forgive...
...Curious Spectacle. He attacked and denounced as he wished-rebelling against Alfonso's tottering monarchy ("Spaniards, your state is no more-reconstruct it") and denouncing the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera ("this curious spectacle"). Finally, he founded a political party made up of intellectuals-the League for the Service of the Republic, which sent him to the 1931 Constituent Cortes. There, in his elegant Castilian, he helped write the constitution of the Spanish Republic: "The magnificent and momentous time has come," he cried, "when fate imposes upon Spaniards the duty of acting grandly...
Strike in the Dark. Niebuhr, says Barth, reminds him of a player in "a curious game called 'Brother, where art thou?' . . . who with eyes blindfolded [strikes] out wildly into the dark in a direction in which the other . . . is in all probability not to be found . . . Niebuhr's contribution is in my view a shattering example of a blow in the dark, such as I have described. The only fundamental answer I can give him is that I do not find myself where . . . I appear to him to be, and where he had delivered such lusty blows...
...fell on a heap of dirty snow. Passersby stopped, turned, and saw him then; a thin, black-haired man lying broken and dying. The curious gathered, and with them blue-overcoated policemen. Then an ambulance nosed...
Elevator operators have their ups and downs, but Leo Shean, night watchman at Lamont for the last year and a half, has had a never-ending struggle to protect the library from the curious. It's been a real challenge...