Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house whose front windows looked out on a zoo, the back windows on a cemetery. The dim living room was papered in dark green-a "chamber of horrors," groaned Poet FitzGerald, "[in which my wife looks] like Lucretia Borgia." FitzGerald found "a sort of consolation" in "some curious Infidel and Epicurean Tetrastichs by a Persian of the Eleventh Century-as Savage against Destiny ... as Manfred-but mostly of Epicurean Pathos of this kind -'Drink-for the Moon will often come round to look for us in this Garden and find us not.'" After a few moons, his marriage...
Early one morning last week, the Texas University registrar opened the doors of the new interim "law school," stalked in to await students. A steady stream of University officials marched in after him, and a group of curious Texans clustered in the corridor to see what would happen. Only one prospective student showed up, and he did not register...
...woman of modern dance are only apt to be confused as they wander desperately through her cryptic program notes to see what she is trying to tell them. Last week, to packed houses in Manhattan, Dance-Dramatist Graham unleashed two new messages for the cultists, the confused and the curious...
Dazed, wild-eyed survivors, most of them dyed green by chemicals, scuttled off down the littered streets. They were soon met by police cars, fire trucks, ambulances and mobs of curious and frightened people. Franciscan friars ran for the wreckage, robes held high, to give the last sacrament. Firemen pried at timbers, pulled at protruding arms and legs. Fifteen bodies were found. One of the victims, a twelve-year-old Negro boy, had been killed by a section of iron pipe as he rode his bicycle two blocks away...
This was the last thing stubborn Howard Hughes had wanted to do (TIME, Jan 6). But RFC had been just as stubborn. Some $19½ million in RFC cash had already been sunk in Hughes's experimental, 750-passenger flying boat, the Hercules. And a Senate committee was curious enough about this deal to question Hughes last week to find out what RFC had got for its wad. (Hughes had hopes that the Hercules would fly this year...