Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nothing like the amount that is generally reported by a curious public," retorted the Beaver Man, and declined to be specific...
...ended his declaration with a statement mild as milk. He declared that the official translation of the inscription is "DESTROYED BY TEUTONIC FOLLY; RESTORED BY AN AMERICAN GIFT." He added that Monsignor Ladeuze, Rector of the University of Louvain has finally ruled that the epithet "furore" shall stand. When curious persons turned to Latin dictionaries, last week, to see if "juror" could be stretched to mean "folly." they found as authorized synonyms "delusion," "frenzy," "madness," "rage" and "fury." Nobody's Latin except Architect Warren's could make "furor" mean "folly," as distinct from insanity...
...rumored that Bishop McConnell would be required to stand trial upon two curious charges: maladministration and immorality. The basis of these charges was probably to be found in the Bishop's admission that "evolution was a matter to be decided by experts not by votes of the people," and in his administration of certain church trials. The charge had been brought by a rabid fundamentalist...
With regard to Mr. Ziegfeld's business, many a curious one has asked questions to which replies are as follows...
...moves to Claridge's.* Naked heiresses disgust him, aristocratic drawing rooms open to actors and prizefighters amaze. At Cambridge he devours the knowledge which a cultured French friend sorts out for him. When his French friend dies, Jâli mourns him deeply, but ruminates upon the curious Western distaste for death. The East, having learned the desirability of death, celebrates its advent with garish ceremony. In the course of much contemplation, Jâli suddenly notices his circumstantial similarity to Buddha, believes himself the new Buddha, visions "saving" the West. He shaves his head, exchanges "garments by Poole...