Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Most Anxious." On Good Friday a small procession wound along the Via Dolorosa. At each station of Christ's journey to Calvary, Archbishop Arthur Hughes, Papal Internuncio at Cairo, genuflected and intoned a prayer; the crowd knelt on the cobbled street and answered. Along the route stood mildly curious Arab Tommy-gunners...
...Walter P. Reuther the effective political figure should start coming of age. Wednesday afternoon at Baker Library the President of the United Auto Workers completely conveyed the integrity of his stance to an audience that might have been hostile: members of Advanced Management and Labor Policy Seminars together with curious Business School onlookers. They peppered Reuther with questions on specific petty gimmicks of UAW policy. The Red Head simply cocked jauntily backward and the Redhead triumphantly established a controlling rapport. "Walter's learned not to get mad at them," remarked a Nieman Fellow who has long covered labor...
...automobiles drew up at the ballpark. It was the eve of rural Johnson County's Democratic primary, and 400 Negroes had registered to vote. Two hundred and forty-nine men & women climbed solemnly out of the cars, holding black oilcloth bags. Heads down* to evade the gaze of curious bystanders, they took out the white sheets and sugar-sack masks of the Ku Klux Klan and hurriedly pulled them on. Then, in slow single file, they marched to the paved square before the town's dilapidated courthouse, where a crowd of 700 waited to applaud...
...Treasure of Sierra Madre" is a story about gold and the effect that it has on three men who search for it. The expedition takes place in the Mexican mountains, where bandits are more common than gold veins, so the tale is as exciting as it is psychologically curious...
Ideas in the Air. The arresting nature of Lancelot Whyte's thought, his curious, almost hypnotic use of language, almost as if he regarded words as mathematical symbols, may give readers something of the sense of wonder that came to the first readers of Emerson. Like Emerson, he releases ideas like a man startling a flock of pigeons into...