Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Collecting a crowd of about 50 for its first meeting in the Adams House Upper Common Room last night, one supporter calling himself "a Liberal with no place to go," and another "just plain curious," the New Fabian Society heard two of its three faculty sponsors and outlined its three point program for immediate action...
...slanderous statements of the criminal . . . are completely fictitious and deserve no credit." A curious Canadian newspaper began to speculate on the life expectancy of 27 year-old Igor Gouzenko (who is still in the protective custody of the Canadian Government). The Montreal Herald reported that Lloyd's of London, which will insure against almost anything, would not quote any rate to insure Gouzenko...
Ever since they dropped words like "Mr." from their headlines, U.S. news papers have made their own language as they went along. Their independence has been limited only by type, column widths, and their own often curious taste. Even Franklin Roosevelt, an old phrase coiner, got nowhere with his "War for Survival." The press* made it World War II, which stuck...
Most of the Metropolitan Opera's radio listeners have never seen the Diamond Horseshoe, but they help keep it glittering. The Met got a third of its funds from radio fans in its last appeal for help. Curious to know its radio fans' taste in opera, the Met asked 123,000 of them to pick their favorite operas. The choices: 1) A'ida, 2) Carmen, 3) La Traviata. Among operas less frequently heard, listeners picked Hansel and Gretel, Boris Gudunov, and Der Rosenkavalier. (The Met promised to broadcast all six next year.) Notably unchosen: Wagner...
...session to learn how to get rich, and rich people sent their secretaries to find out how to stay that way. (One Boston chartist reportedly took in $50,000 in 1945 from Wall Streeters alone.) Customers included top diplomats who wanted to know world-policy trends, and movie stars curious about 1946 box-office statistics...