Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ghastly corpse sprawls on the floor, a curious dagger still quivering in its side. The wall-safe gapes open−gone the twin heirloom emeralds, gone the royal Russian ruby. A slip of a girl cowers by the curtain, hand to throat, wide eyes glued to the horrid spectacle. Thunderous knocking at the door−the police! Quavering housekeeper opens; gusty storm blows her grey wisp of hair, flash of lightning glitters in her twin green (emerald green) eyes. Blustering sergeant finds cigaret case initialed J. S. "A plant," sneers John Smith, master detective, who has appeared suddenly in their...
...Publisher Hearst, despairing of selling advertising in such a thing, offered to give one Albert J. Kobler a big commission for every advertisement sold. From this commission, Salesman Kobler soon derived a five and then a six figure income. Last week, over the signature of Mr. Kobler, a curious full-page advertisement appeared in New York newspapers. It read, in part...
...suggested a good number in a musical show, he made a fortune and won the heroine, impersonated by the spry and pretty Barbara Newberry. Aside from the mechanical innovations, the most noteworthy ingredient of Good Boy was Charles Butterworth, cast in the role of a cynical farm-lout. This curious and doleful personage often put his hands above his head and remarked, "Oh, the pity...
...Significance. Slighter than the broken bridge at Lima is the thread upon which these, and still more, stories are strung. Seeming irrelevant, their juxtaposition reveals the curious and intricate interweaving of heterogeneous human lives. If a mystical corollary was intended, it is less important than the sheer fortuity which makes bromides say the world is such a small place after...
...person of Michael McDara, he draws the sudden nauseating terrors, the megalomania, the curious mystical exaltations of the assassin. McDara, having conceived the assassination-idea, three years before, arrives in Dublin a few days before the act. He enlists the support of two men and a woman. His continuous struggle against panic, and above all the conflict of conceptions of the act's significance and symbolism make the book...