Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assuming that the lady is right, the matter presents its curious aspects. Perspicacious gentlemen within these borders have long aimed their darts at the Mrs. Grundy they claim to be masquerading behind Uncle Sam's chin-whiskers and new horn-rimmed glasses. After reading the editorial page of Judge one wonders how it ever manages to appear without being suppressed; after glancing at Mr. Mencken's polemics, one feels that the author faces martyrdom every time he sits down to his typewriter. Now the Mexican lady accuses this land of being the home not of liberty, but of license...
...happen they were really wrung with sympathy for bumptious Mr. Brand, after whose name in Who's Who appears the proud legend, "member of the Butter and Milk Commission under Herbert Hoover during the World War," but upon whose soul now rests the necessity of supporting the curious "boom" of his fellow Ohioan, Senator Willis. Never did a big butter-&-milk man undertake a braver job than attacking a once honored chief for the sake of a boss to whom he was now obligated. And never did a big butter-&-milk man have his job turn out a more...
...careful chapters during the centuries when these were circulated by hand and copied by hasty, sometimes stupid scribes. The Cardinal's method is simple, laborious, exact. He commands a commission of twelve Benedictine monks whose assistants hunt the libraries and collections of Europe, dig and sniff in curious corners, and retrieve for him old manu scripts. By judiciously comparing these, of which some 20,000 have now been gathered, it will be possible to determine more precise readings than those now used...
Heywood Broun's comment on Terry of the Dean's office, reprinted Saturday, focuses attention on that curious and fascinating group of human beings known as "characters", and doubtless calls forth sighs from the older alumni, who deplore the passing of the men that once gave a spice of variety to Harvard life. Long years have passed since John the Orangeman and his donkey-cart trundled through Cambridge, and the original Poco visited dormitories with a load of old clothes over his arm. But the extinction of the individual does not mean the extinction of the species; and there...
...sense, Senator Watson's "candidacy" for the Republican nomination is even more curious than the Willis phenomenon. Senator Watson's reputation is extremely unsavory. The Springfield Republican's 16 reasons for a Hoover campaign in Indiana were references to 16 members of the Watson political crew who have been indicted for crookery in the past four years. But, unlike pompous Senator Willis, easy-going Senator Watson has no pretensions beyond those of a "favorite son." His game is simply to herd the Indiana delegates for delivery to his good friend Vice President Dawes or for barter with...