Word: curiouser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your notes on the Irish ports desired by Britain [TIME, Nov. 18] and your curious reference to Mr. de Valera's conscience are based on a misreading of the Irish situation. You say Mr. de Valera in refusing the ports is handcuffed by his Briton-hating colleagues. One could hardly accuse the Irish Times of being Briton-hating and yet this paper, consistently friendly to Britain, speaking specifically of the debate on the Irish ports in the British House of Commons, deprecated "the loose talk concerning Ireland which occasionally creeps into the proceedings of the British Parliament," and adds...
...late Auguste Rodin. After World War I he got a job as professor of modeling at the Royal Academy of Stockholm. But the Swedish critics disliked the distortions and fearsome grimaces of his statues, never conceded him a top ranking among Swedish artists. It was not until 1926, when curious Londoners gathered together a large Milles exhibition at the Tate Gallery, that Carl Milles became known to the outside world as Sweden's No. 1 sculptor. Following year Chicago's Architects Holabird & Root brought him to the U. S. to do a fountain for their Michigan Square Building...
Once having discovered the hidden objects, the prize-winner became curious to know if the beans really contained poison. They were accordingly fed to a dog found straying about the Yard...
...Sunday all over England they came hedgehopping and machine-gunned the people as they strolled. The attackers also resorted to booby traps-little metal boxes the size of cigaret tins with dangling wires which the curious were tempted to pull. If they did, they blew themselves...
...Dispatch from Reuter's (Warner) traces the career of Julius Reuter, the founder of the now official British news agency, from curious boyhood through hard-pressed, aggressive maturity...