Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...married Paul Guillaume, a wealthy art dealer, the friend of Apollinaire, Cocteau, Utrillo, and of André Derain, whose portrait of Dominique shows her in a wide hat, with a faint smile, a withdrawn expression and eyes that a man could drown in. In 1934 Paul Guillaume died under curious circumstances. At first it was reported that he had been lost at sea on a fishing expedition, then that he had wasted away of a disease resembling paratyphoid...
Queue Here. In London, a monthly trade publication called Films & Filming carried a classified ad: "Young man, ugly and a liar, interested in nothing, but curious, wishes to hear from anyone else in same predicament...
...highlight of his visit to this country, Mikoyan was luncheon guest of banking representatives. Police lines were posted in the famed financial district to keep the curious at a distance...
Ramsay MacDonald: "Curious bird. He had a kind of Highland aloofness. You never quite knew where he was. Always rather apt to impress on you the whole burden of the world...
There are certain personalities in this world who are blessed with a special knack for shedding the prosaic and attracting to their lives the romantic and the curious. Perhaps these people owe more to fate than to talent, but they exist nonetheless. And, if there are such people, there are also such buildings. Some have had to put up with centutries of mediocrity while others have been graced with consistently interesting, and often histrionic, tenants. Cambridge's Warren House belongs to this illustrious category...