Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easily explained was a curious collection found in Florrie's trunk and in various places in the house: a package labeled "Arsenic-Poison for cats," three bottles with arsenic in them, a rag and a handkerchief impregnated with arsenic, other lethal odds & ends which doctors said were enough in sum to poison 50 people. Florrie was convicted, sentenced to be hanged...
...dash opening now means "V for Victory." A new, concealed spotlight picked out the pale, rhetorical hands of the conductor, emotional Leopold Stokowski. There was applause, and Times Critic Olin Downes took to his typewriter to complain of the orchestra's playing and the symphonic ways of "this curious man" Stokowski. This was the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's opening of its 100th birthday season...
...problem of how an abnormal psychology can transform itself into a world movement, you will find it answered. If you would understand the principles of National Socialism as they are held by many millions of German fanatics, they are expounded and reiterated continuously. If you are still curious to know what the New Order of Europe will be like if Hitler's nightmare comes true, you can find its philosophy and its course plotted in detail. And if you're inclined to murmur "propaganda" at some of the things you hear and read, let Hitler himself explain the millenium...
...bronze gentleman who sat on a marble pedestal in front of University Hall. His prepared speech beginning "I always send my laundry home . . ." died on his lips, and when the gentlemen turned towards the corridor and beckoned him to follow, he hurriedly reached for his coat. There was a curious whistling sensation in his ears, and suddenly he found that he was again facing John Harvard, for there was no doubt about it now, but on one wall of the narrow room hung a plaque saying "Harvard Student Council." The elderly divine cleared his throat: "I don't often...
...mere 300-year-old moppet in the history of art, last week met and ogled a baby brother. The baby brother was Australian art, a bouncing 150-year-old. The meeting took place on the ground floor of Washington's pink marble National Gallery, where a thousand curious visitors assembled for the opening of the first comprehensive exhibition of work by Australian painters ever shown...