Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three huge blocks of north Michigan pine, each made by pressing planks together like a gigantic piece of plywood, Carl Milles carved the biggest one into his medieval-looking horseman and tree. From the other blocks he carved two flanking figures: a bristly, annoyed-looking faun and a pleased, curious-eyed nymph. When he had finished, Sculptor Milles claimed he had produced the largest piece of wood carving ever seen in the U. S., one of the three largest in the Occidental world. But that was not enough. Sculptor Milles wanted the bird in his statue to move and sing...
...morning last fortnight, when inhabitants of Harvard's Lowell House entered their library, they discovered a curious act of vandalism: each of the 3,000 books on its shelves had been reversed, its back was to the wall, its title concealed. No book had been stolen...
...more disturbing character was Fern's uncle, a druggist who scandalized her and the "Reverent Mr. Dotson" by selling whiskey to town drunks. This unethical druggist kept a curious machine on his tobacco counter which Fern feared was unethical...
...were too busy raising families, buying radios and automobiles to think of striking, they had seen little to admire. Dolefully they clumped together in circles like the New Republic and The Nation. Substituting a good deal of intellectual inbreeding for organic contact with U. S. life, they developed a curious cultural provincialism. The Depression came to them as a refreshing change. Fundamentally skeptical, maladjusted, defeatist, the intellectuals felt thoroughly at home in the chaos and misery of the '30s. Fundamentally benevolent and humane, they loved their fellow countrymen in distress far more than they could ever love them...
...intellectuals, refugees once more in their lonely remodeled farmhouses in Connecticut and the Berkshires, thought it over. Comrade Hicks, who had been closest to the Party, knew most about it, thought Communism was daily growing more like fascism. Waldo Frank, who claims that he fellow-traveled under the curious delusion that he could influence Communists toward higher things ("I knew in my heart that I couldn't"), had left the Communists so far behind that it all seemed rather funny. Lewis Mumford. whose fellow-traveling consisted largely of letting Communist-front organizations use his name on letterheads, considered this...