Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will put on a large price and make money out of the last home of Clémenceau." Chuckling, he added, "When I tell her I am feeling ill she is quite cheerful, and when I tell her I am in good health she is very sad. A very curious old lady...
After every financial crisis, curious eyes turn toward the luxury trades. Last week, many eyes turned toward diamonds. Sardonically, they noted the following developments in three great world diamond centres...
...esteemed contemporary. The Evening World, calls attention to a state of football affairs that is indeed curious. "Harvard won again this year," it says, "and everywhere this is regarded as air upset, as the dope had favored Yale Why? One is at a loss to think. The dope always favors Yale, so much so that the sports writers would appear to have a Yale complex. Yet the hard facts are that since 1906, when the forward pass was introduced and the modern game may be said to have started, Harvard has won eleven games and Yale only eight. Three years...
...More policemen than citizens witnessed the Louisville parade. The hall where the President spoke was only half-filled with curious spectators who did not grasp the significance of his speech on inland waterway development" reads your description of President Hoover's visit to Louisville in TIME for Nov. 4. ... A gross exaggeration and untruth and one for which TIME should be ashamed. . . . True the weather was inclement when the President honored Louisville with his visit-so inclement that plans formulated many days in advance were changed at the last moment. Admiring throngs lined the streets over which...
...phthisis, some 60 years ago. About 30 years later rumor crept about that his grave held miraculous powers of healing. Fortnight ago the rumors grew and flew. From Boston, from all New.England, from the outer-States and Canada came the sick, the halt, the blind, the faithful, the curious; also quick-lunch vendors, souvenir postcard hawkers, trinket peddlers, troublemakers. From dawn to dusk, day after day, the slow-shuffling queue wound through the cemetery to the silent grave, heaped with flowers, surrounded with guttering vigil lights. Boston's Irish Catholic Mayor-elect James Michael Curley came with...