Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...film, in the opinion of experts, is one of the most remarkable examples of exterior photography ever made. Further interest is added by several curious and unusual experiments that Professor Ames performs...
...Parisians with cheap titles and cheaper morals. In a "quaint" apartment over an apothecary's shop in the Faubourg St. Germain, a noisy female parasite gives a dinner to consolidate her waning position. To jaded guests she offers, as entertainment and prey, a virginal American heiress, Anne. A curious decadent odor hangs over the affair, waves of sickening smell choke the perverted conversation. Anne, suffocating, escapes from the room. Downstairs she clatters into something that jangles dismally. It is a metal funeral wreath of painted violets and roses. A door opens and in the dim light Anne sees three...
Several manuscripts of Whittier, and an interesting letter of Whitman's are suitable for first consideration. With what seems to be a curious naivety, Whitman concludes his letter from the Attorney-General's office to Mr. Freiligrath with the following words, "I shall be well pleased indeed to hear from you. My address is Walt Whitman, Washington, D. C., U. S. America...
...Nebraska State Engineer, itemized various flaws-a great terrace bulging through its stone confines, priceless columns of tinted marble that were chipped and had been deceptively repaired; cracked stones. In 1923 his charges had been refuted and the document affirming their refutation signed by Engineer Johnson. Now, for some curious reason he has spoken again. Nebraskans recalled that Engineer Johnson had not been allowed to build the capitol, that Architect Goodhue had let the contracts and dominated the construction.* This time the capitol commission and other defendants found it easier to combat Engineer Johnson for the capitol had arisen...
STRANGE INTERLUDE-Eugene O'Neill's curious, long, effective expedition into the human soul (TIME, Feb. 13, 1928). STREET SCENE-A slice of tenement life, deftly cut (TIME, Jan. 21). JOURNEY'S END-Ten men in a World War dugout (TIME, April 1). LIGHT HOLIDAY-The brightest dialog of the season (TIME, Dec. 10). CAPRICE-Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in a merry importation (TIME, Jan. 14). KIBITZER-The preposterous adventures of a Jewish know-it-all in the stock market (TIME, March 4). MUSICAL Best light lines, legs and lyrics: Hold Everything, Whoopee, Follow Thru...