Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suppose like many others I have been curious as to the support the leading isolationists get in their home towns. The first of July of this year I was in Bowling Green, Mo., the home of Bennett Champ Clark. I did not attempt to make a poll of the town. I only made inquiry in a casual way. . . . The first time I asked the question was to a farmer in a barbershop. The reply was, "I can tell you what we think of him here, his picture in the court house has its face turned to the wall...
Contractor Lawrence Wood ("Chip") Robert Jr., ex-New Deal favorite, appeared in Atlanta with a black eye. To curious friends he handed a printed card: "... I was helping an old crippled lady . . . when her crutch slipped . . . and hit me in the eye. If you don't believe this, ask Evie [his wife], she doesn't either...
Memorial Hall, which is being used as the public counting place, is a madhouse of certified public accountants, summer able clerke, curious citizens, and sharp eyed candidates watching that no mistakes are made...
...Chafing against a hard edge of reluctance she felt in Stahr, the girl married another man. Stahr, no drinker, got dismally drunk. Fitzgerald's manuscript stops at that point. The synopsis, and notes carry the tale down to Stahr's death in an airplane crash, and its curious aftermath...
...never able to take a convincing stand against Nazi doctrines, nor against Fascism in general. Their sense of the historic present is so feeble that they can submit to doing Hitler's work in the United States--which is precisely what that are doing. In the course of this curious, but manifest activity, they have the effrontery to say that those who realize that compromise with Nazism is physically impossible "have failed to state their peace aims." I have never had profound respect for semantics as a cult, but I marvel that it's devotees do not come to grips...