Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Curious Course. Ten years ago Chucho Reyes set up a school in Guadalajara to train local children in painting, sculpture, bookbinding, glass blowing, dramatic writing, silver and tin work. Reyes himself knew nothing of these techniques, hired no teachers, ran the school in highly unacademic fashion. ("That is why they made such pretty things...
...battle of Mons will rank as one of the most decisive actions in our campaign in Europe, for it was here that the German rear guard was smashed. Regardless of its importance, however, it will rank as one of the most curious battles of the war-curious in that neither the German nor American commands, both marching north on parallel roads, expected a battle of such magnitude...
Last week the most curious sidelight on Winston Churchill's recent trip to Italy was the revelation that Sicily was once again becoming a political football at the toe of the Italian boot. Britain was reported to be toying with Sicilian separatism, and with the idea of restoring the long-defunct kingdom of Sicily. To Sicilians, uncomfortably conscious of the rising tide of leftist political turmoil on the mainland, the idea was attractive...
These questions might be answered in the next few weeks or months. For the present, observers noted the curious fact that Chungking's tight censorship last week permitted the filing of a report that Communist China has grown impressively (see below...
...Francisco Correspondents Robert de Roos and Fritz Goodwin hotfooted it to the Shoemaker and Naval Hospitals, spent hours talking with some of the just-arrived typhus-and malaria-ridden boys who weren't quite up to the trip across the country yet-sent a long wire about the curious, unexpected things they wanted most to know about ("What's this new leg paint the girls are wearing?"-"What's old Brooklyn look like...