Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plant rubber trees over an area of 1,000,000 acres. With typical U. S. generosity, Mr. Firestone paid more than the average African wage. Liberian blacks receive 25? a day, in cash. Last week, the Mandates Commission of the League of Nations was called upon to read a curious document. It was a report, made by onetime Harvard professor Raymond Buell, submitted to the League by Henri A. Junod, President of the International Society for the Protection of Natives. Declared Professor Buell, in effect: "Firestone forced its way into Liberia. The U. S. State Department and Herbert Hoover brought...
...slang the petty thought and emotion of lower-class America, John Weaver's verse, "In America" was a success. His success was partly due to simple spelling (Milt Gross's anagrams are too difficult), but also to his bright reflection of the city-dweller's curious combination of cynicism and sentimentality. The Brooklyn girl of his first novel has not enough of the cynicism to guard her against too much sentimentality, so she flounders miserably through a crush on the high school football hero, a passionate affair with a marine sergeant (1916), and a restful flirtation with...
...Europe-first perhaps because of his affair with Isadora Duncan, whose affections had several of the attributes of a theatrical spotlight; then and more notably as a producer of plays and because of his superlative work as a scenic artist. He was making use of his artistry in a curious way last week. Dame Terry had requested her friends to wear no mourning to express an erroneous sorrow; she had written, "there is no death. What seems so is only transition." To emphasize this peaceful belief, Gordon Craig was designing a white coffin, shaped like a cradle...
Last week Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York promenaded the Hall of Honor with Tobacco Chairman Sir Gilbert Wills. "I am reminded," said the Duke, "of a curious American substitute for such beautiful paintings, which came to the notice of my brother...
...cross between St. George and Don Quixote"-one might add P. Y. Barnum to Author Long's analysis, and so justify Asquith in diagnosing Bryan as "a peculiar product of your country." If by peculiar he meant curious, there are those in this country who would agree; if, which is more likely, he meant typical, there are those who would cavil. Not so Author Long, who writes a sympathetic though by no means fanatic account of the loves and hates, works and troubles, of the peculiar product...