Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently appraised at three-quarters of a million dollars was the General Director's unique 15,000-volume library of curious wine lore. More valuable still, however, are the super-sensitive taste-buds on his tongue, and the keen olfactory sense which enables Mr, Reeves-Smith to classify most wines by merely sniffing their bouquet. For 35 years he has passed upon every vintage offered for purchase to the Savoy. Just now he is enjoying a brief U. S. vacation, resting his taste buds, sticking strictly and amiably for a fortnight to legal U. S. mineral water...
...grounds of Henry Douglas Pierce, No. 1415 North Meridian St., Indianapolis. The Pierce gingko is more than 8 ft. around. Planted when no larger than a walking stick, it grew amazingly, its roots bathed in soapy drainage from the Pierce laundry. The gingko, bright yellow in autumn, has a curious habit of shed-cling each and every one of its leaves in a single night...
Throughout his book he traces his brilliant idea which must perforce rank with the most gracious, sympathetic?and effective?missionary approaches. Two figures loom: the Christ, of course, and Mahatma Gandhi.? It is in Gandhi, he finds, or in one like him, that India will find the Christ. Curious is the parallel which Indians already draw between their great leader and Jesus Christ. Gandhi has suffered, fasted, been imprisoned. And many an Indian, now first glimpsing the new figure on the Indian road, has reverently paralleled Yerravada, Gandhi's first prison, with Calvary...
...Holiday", Phillip Barry's comedy of the younger generation, still draws the crowds and a curious hodge-podge of critical evaluation, from those who think its smart sophistication eminently satisfactory to those who consider it a hasty re-hash of idle chatter by the smart young New Yorkers one may find at the Algonquin. Jed Harris has two shows on view, the profane and colorful newspaper show, "Front Page" and a not entirely successful fantasy, but a play like none other now in New York, "Serena Blandish", in which Ruth Gordon, A. E. Matthews and Constance Collier depict the languid...
...letters, which will be published by D. Appleton and Company in this country sometime next fall, represent one of the most curious and romantic episodes in history. They are addressed to two sisters, Anne, Countess of Chesterfield and Lady Bradford...