Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in the Fourth District after her tour Mrs. Luce found a curious reversal of the normal political situation in the county. The normally Republican sections -the so-called "station-wagon" vote in commuting areas-did not do as well by her as they might, whereas the factory girls of industrial Bridgeport, normally New Deal voters, made her a kind of heroine...
Cyrus Lee Sulzberger II, 32, is rawboned, curious, and has a tireless pair of reportorial legs. Starting grass-green in 1934, Harvardman Sulzberger declared he would not work for the Times until it asked him to. After a turn on the Pittsburgh Press, he joined the Washington staff of the United Press, became a labor specialist, later wrote a book, Sit-down with John L. Lewis. In 1938 he went abroad without a job, landed one with the London Evening Standard, finally got his call from the Times...
President Davis, curious, put in a call for Cleveland. Alumnae General Secretary Florence H. Snow dispatched another round of cards, deploring the Royon propaganda. Meantime Miss Royon, secretary to Cleveland's ex-Tycoon Cyrus Eaton, announced that she had received some 100 letters in reply to her card-most of them were for Dewey...
...drizzling rain fell. Through the haze, artillery, rifles and machine guns worked without rest. The men crouched in trenches, in curious, strangely intimate warfare, often within the sound of the enemy's voice. In the nearby town of Dornot, American and German dead lay sprawled together in too hot a corner for immediate recovery. Occasionally, when the rain lifted, Thunderbolt fighters whipped in to dive-bomb and strafe strong points...
...press corps uprose in indignation. They declared they had never seen or heard of such a list, swore that few Congressmen are less than perfect gentlemen, said that the articles had made their work harder by making Congressmen afraid to be alone with them. They were even more curious than indignant when the author of the unsigned stories turned out to be plump, bespectacled Post Reporter Mary Spargo, onetime investigator for the Dies Committee...