Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suspicious leaders rose to ask suspicious questions. Labor's Herbert Morrison countered: "There is something curious about this indignation of the Conservative Party over a little bit of territory's being added to the British Empire." The storm extended to the Brooke household. The Raja's good-looking nephew and onetime heir apparent, Anthony, wrote letters to the press denouncing his uncle's gift as an "anachronistic arrangement...
...Antigone" of Jean Anouilh, adapted by Lewis Galantiere, is a curious but striking conglomeration of tragic legend, stylized modern staging, interpolated contemporary staging, and some of the most artificial dialogue heard in the theatre this season...
...work of agents sent in by General Wladyslaw Anders, commander of the British-financed Polish Army in Exile. British taxpayers were footing the bill for the murders. Polish Communists (900) and Socialists (250) had been killed, as well as Peasant Party members. (A Briton commented that it was curious solace for the Peasant Party to know that everybody was being murdered...
...Oliver, musicomedian and ex-son-in-law of Winston Churchill, made his debut as a symphony conductor, offered "popular classics" at prim Albert Hall. A critic's report: "curious idea of tempo and no idea of rhythm...
Sofar, a by-product of wartime submarine detection research, is as curious as it is practical. A five-pound bomb, tossed into the water by the survivor, explodes under hydrostatic pressure 3,000 to 4,000 feet under sea. Sound waves, carried by the water, are picked up by three or more shore stations. By careful comparison of the arrival times of the signals, the stations can chart the position of the explosion, through triangulation...