Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Taggers Tagged? Sirs: For quite a while I have been watching the license tags on the automobiles that visit California, and I wish your advice on a very curious phenomenon. All the states of this country and the provinces of Canada require two tags, one in front and one in the rear, and both exactly alike.* However, three states, Arkansas, Texas and Tennessee, at various time, have seen fit to require the word "front" on the front license, and "rear" on the rear one.† It occurred to me in this connection that these States have passed laws banning...
...Iceland's Althing. Founded to settle disputes between bellicose land-owning chieftains, it celebrates its millennial (1,000th anniversary) next year. The U. S. Congress has received an invitation to attend the ceremony, through the Danish Minister.* Last week the house of Representatives accepted the invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called...
When her love "clears" by consummation, her art acquires clean, voluptuous curves, a well-defined posterlike quality. Suddenly, however, her art switches to violent angles and she casts out love. Then, tiring of angles, she decided to have a baby, curious to know what kind of art supplements motherhood...
...younger when she lived at No. 10 Downing Street than was sober-sided Ishbel MacDonald, who was her father's official hostess, is much the same quiet sort of girl and leaves flamboyance to her parent. Of all the progeny of the Big Three, the most curious is Oliver Baldwin, a young man once thin and precious, now plump and still precious. A member of Oxford's most esoteric circles, he fought in the Armenian army, was imprisoned in Turkey, entered the Labor Party at home chiefly to annoy his father. He let a rumor go around...
...afternoon ceremony M. Pierre Marraud, French Minister of Public Instruction, formally presented the pictures to U. S. Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour, who thanked him gracefully. Later the audience strolled about the hall to look at the pictures. They were curious to see the 1,400 most famous living Frenchmen. Beneath each portrait was a message from the subject...