Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole nation has followed suit. But last week, Buchmanites all over the world celebrated their founder's 70th birthday. Frank Buchman himself attended the biggest party of all, which filled Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl with 10,000 of the "changed" and the curious...
...says goodbye when they leave. It is seldom impressed with their triumphs and does not mourn if they choose to dive out a window. There is no lonelier sight in the world than a dead man lying on a Manhattan sidewalk, ringed by a throng of the half-curious...
...disgusted: he was scarcely able to see a thing. On the Union side, General Meade's horse ran away with him, and his staff followed (they all returned to the righting eventually); a Confederate band struck up the gayest "polkas and waltzes"; Sir Arthur found it "very curious...
...daughter for the first time in two months. He bought a set, and now she brings her boy friends home." At first television's novelty value was so high that it some times altered the usual standards of hospitality. Many TV owners, faced with a houseful of curious friends & neighbors, required regulars to bring their own refreshments...
Anyone who is curious about how bestsellers are put together might profit from a hard look at Peony. Here, in a neat economy package, are crammed all the formula-tested and cliche-ripe ingredients for which book-club members seem to have an insatiable appetite. (Peony, a Literary Guild selection, is Miss Buck's tenth book to hit the jackpot with a major book club...