Word: curiousities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wait in here, I'll be back in a minute," she said, showing me into a room through a purple door. The room held a curious assortment of decoration: an oriental rug, a Japanese figure lamp, a serapecovered chair, and flower prints surrounded a green modern couch half circling a round, low table on which an alligator and a black jaguar crouched...
...first of hundreds of underworld characters. The two killers had dropped their pistols on the way out; one was a .32 Smith & Wesson, the other a .38 Colt which originally had been sold in the Middle West in the 1930s. That was all anybody knew. The police were intensely curious as to why Al's bodyguard, one Anthony Coppola, was in a drugstore across the street when Al was ventilated. Anthony was just doing what his kind always does; he was having a cup of coffee...
...seconds the painting was completed. As Huang Chun-pi turned smiling to face the crowded room, the audience burst into applause. Thus Formosa's leading landscape artist and teacher last week demonstrated his technique in the lecture room of Manhattan's China House, crowded to overflowing with curious Manhattan artists and Huang's old pupils. The occasion: Professor Huang's first exhibition in the U.S., some 40 landscape paintings...
...tracked down the story behind it and found that Miss Jomes worked a steam-iron at the Acme Laundry in Eastpox, N.J. Last year, while ironing a shirt belonging to Laundry Mark x428Fy, she had noticed a small piece of paper protruding from the slot on the collar. Curious, she pulled it out and read: "Whoever you are, I love the way you press my shirts. I think I may love you too. Interested?" She blushed, but daringly wrote her answer--"Interested, sorta," and slipped it in the collar-slot. Ten days later came another shirt from x428Fy and, sure...
Contrary to newspaper reports, there was no throng of thousands waiting; only a straggling collection of city officials, Senator Knowland, and some curious night-life...