Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thousands of other small, sharp vignettes of approaching action constituted the English scene. All through that scene threaded the sometimes tactless-tongued, sometimes careless, always curious U.S. soldier. The hedged lanes, the pleasant parks, the thatched pubs teemed with G.I. Joes...
...soldier with a curious job was on his way to the China-Burma theater last week. His job is to help a party of officers learn Chinese. He knows no Chinese himself...
...depended on the opposition. Grant Dexter, associate editor of the Winnipeg Free Press, closer to Mr. King's line than other newsmen, suggested last week that one wing of the Prime Minister's Progressive Conservative opposition is anxious to challenge him on foreign policy. Wrote Dexter: "The curious thing is that they [the Conservatives] are just as certain the Canadian people will vote for a single-voice policy for the Commonwealth as the Liberals are that the people will refuse...
...quartet consisting of Vinal, Windhurst, Schwarz, and Hart will play for the jazz fans, the intellectual curious, and the hardier dancers beginning a week from Friday night. Of course you can never tell who might sit in. An intriguing possibility presents itself when Louis Armstrong comes to Boston. Since the hand plays a good many of Louis' old tunes, such as "Muskrat Ramble," "Dippermouth Blues,' "Struttin' With Some Barbecue," "Sunset Cafe Stomp," "Big Butter and Egg Man," "Come Back Sweet Papa," and "Squeeze Me," you might stumble into the master himself dipping back into his very colorful past to play...
...chief engineer had been known to unioneers as a fink. Some five months later, District Attorney Earl Warren got three union officials indicted and convicted on a charge of conspiracy to murder the engineer. The trial had some curious aspects: the judge was an old friend of Warren's; the deputy district attorney who tried the case became heavily indebted to one of the jurors. Labor and many liberals cried "frame-up"; labor unions surrounded the courthouse daily with 1,000 pickets. The three unioneers were subsequently pardoned by Governor Culbert Olson. Labor has never completely forgiven Earl Warren...