Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...McCormick is a high-strung person of taste and refinement. It was curious to see her thrown in with such figures as Small, Thompson and Deneen. Yet in with them she was. People who voted the Deneen ticket voted also for her. This was curious because Deneen is her sworn enemy, the enemy of her dead husband, Medill McCormick, whose Senate seat Deneen won in 1924, just before Mr. McCormick died. Deneen dislikes her, too, and fears her. She plans to fight him for the Senate seat...
...ponderately support this group of groups would very probably result in the eventual replacement of Prime Minister Poincaré by some outstanding member of the Cartel des Gauches and would lead to less orthodox handling of State finance. As may be seen from the above summary, it is a curious fact that the leaders of both the large rival groupings are now members of the present Sacred Union Cabinet which was assembled during the franc crisis from leaders of all parties. Thus no matter which way the election swings, a considerable proportion of the present Cabinet Ministers are sure...
...fathers as Baron Dalberg makes it possible for Harvard to rest its case upon the ideas of Mr. Benn, the youngest seizer of the forch that the Baron once wielded. It is sufficient to say that the predictions of the Baron have been fulfilled, but in most curious fashion. It has probably happened, as the Baron suggested it might, out of a kind of vanity. Whatever the impetus, it is a fact that learning is desirable at Harvard, and yet that curiously enough, fewer men have leisure than ever before. Still the utilitarian character of the country remains, but still...
Sotheby's auction rooms, in London, are in a large house, full of dark carpeted passages, like tunnels under the ground. One of these passages leads to the big gallery which, one day last week, was inhabited by a curious and excited crowd. The walls of the gallery were covered with brown burlap and old paintings. In front was an oak pulpit and the auctioneer...
...Curious physiological effects have been obtained under hypnotism. The patient, with both arms extended in front of him, has been told that the blood would leave one arm and go to the other. The operator has then massaged one arm and the blood has drained into the other arm until the arms presented a shocking contrast in red and white. Red and white they remained until the signal was given. Then the blood was seen to flow slowly back until both arms were the same color. The mechanism of this is unknown but the fact has been demonstrated repeatedly...