Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some polling places children presented the proxies of their parents, servants those of their masters. Premier Chang Chun himself had to scold the curious who pressed around to watch him write his choice: "This isn't right. We must vote in secret." But, as the Premier added, it was "the first time." Chinese hoped for improvement. Said scholarly, bespectacled Tseng Chi, head of the Chinese Youth Party: "Perhaps six years from now, at the next general election, we'll know more...
Everyone seemed to like the P.M. Said a waiter who served him: "I've seen 25 Belgian premiers come & go in the last 25 years, and I was curious to see from close by what a permanent premier looks like." He thought he had fathomed the secret of Mr. King's success: "He knows perfectly when to laugh, and especially not to laugh while others are laughing...
...heads of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt on nearby Mount Rushmore, which Ziolkowski helped Gutzon Borglum blast. With no Government money, as Borglum had, Ziolkowski hoped to finance his work by mining the mountain's beryl and feldspar as he went along and selling Indian souvenirs to curious visitors. It would take him 30 years, he guessed last week, to whittle Crazy Horse...
Elsewhere, the German attitude toward outsiders is a curious combination of bitterness and self-centered smugness. German after German told me solemnly that Hitler's only mistake lay in trying to do the right things the wrong way. They actually believe that nobody ever suffered as they have suffered. They want to tell their troubles and, like a girl I met in Munich, are not interested in hearing the troubles of others. This girl had lamented at length over Munich's overcrowding...
...keep Amber stepping, scene after scene had to be chopped out. These gaps have been plugged with some of the loudest cinemusic ever soundtracked-obviously in hopes that audiences literally will not be able to hear themselves think. The scheme backfires in a curious way: with eyes drugged by the Technicolor and ears numbed by the weight of sound, cinemaddicts are in no shape to appreciate the movie's Big Attractions (The London Fire, The Great Plague, The Duel, Amber in Childbirth...