Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Michigan Kid, Wheel of Chance, A Certain Young Man, The Play Girl, Burning Daylight are neither curious nor good...
Concerning G. 0. P. contributions, Treasurer Nutt also made this curious statement: "Another question concerns where it comes from. I feel sure that Chairman Hubert Work will not accept any improper vouchers. . . . No subscription has been requested or accepted where any reasonable question could be rightfully raised as to the donor or the amount of the subscription...
Abie's Irish Rose, The Strange Case of Captain Ramper, Dawn, The End of St. Petersburg, Lights of New York (Vita-phone) are all curious...
...Curious is the fact that U. S. and British news organs, when libeling or exposing, make incessant use of such phrases as "alleged," "charged," "understood." Legally it is quite as libelous to pussyfoot, "John Doe is an alleged swindler," as to boldly print, "John Doe is a swindler." Psychological explanation: writers and editors feel safer when they pussyfoot, as do ostriches with heads in sand...
...race of mystical poets who have gone awry in some way." But this judgment by a cynical agnostic had no dampening effect on Reuben's religious fervor. Born of a stoic collier and a bibacious mother who starved the boy for affection, he was a child of curious, conflicting emotion. Gleefully he chopped up frogs and roasted mice alive; demurely he followed his father to church, and gradually religion won out-he was hypnotized, obsessed. Evenings, he pored over the Bible, sweated to convert his friend the agnostic. And evenings, there was Eirwen, sensuous, beautiful, alluring. Reuben...