Word: curiousity
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whose bark-rough plaster surfaces make them more like bewitched trees than goddesses, archaic-looking heads as tiny as a thumbnail, a slinking alley cat with body no thicker around than the thumb. None of them is finished, Giacometti truculently insists. But in the eyes of art critics, these curious forms are the best sculpture being done in France today...
...three-judge Appeals Court did not find itself guffawing at the jest. Last week Federal Judge Harold R. Medina ruled for the court: "This is a curious and unprofitable sort of jesting, as others may not view the humor in the same light . . . These explanations are wholly without merit or substance." The court unanimously upheld the $175,001 judgment against Pegler and his Hearst employers, who must pay the bill under terms of Pegler's contract. It is one of the biggest libel awards ever given by a U.S. court...
...abrasive name of Dirksen, who had insulted Tom Dewey in a convention speech, was brought up under a curious circumstance but never seriously considered. Shortly after the meeting began, Senator Frank Carlson got a message that Robert Taft would like to talk to him. Carlson left the conference, and Taft told him that, although he had no right to ask it, he had promised immediately prior to the convention that Dirksen's name would be considered for the vice-presidency. Would Carlson, as a favor, nominate Dirksen so that Taft could honor his promise? Carlson would...
...year later they were married, and in due course Goodie became the doting father of two more dazzling blondes, Marilyn and Carolyn. Goodie, a mellow and indulgent parent, was surprised when he occasionally struck flint in his daughters' dispositions. When Carolyn was a student at U.S.C., he was curious to know why she had not joined a sorority. "Unlike you, Father," retorted Carolyn, "I feel no need for mass adulation." Life With Father. Around home, according to the girls, Father was lovable but incompetent. "Every Sunday he would be mumbling about getting out in the back and doing some...
Local Habitation. In Launceston, Australia, complaining that "people give me curious glances when I tell them my address," a farmer petitioned the district council to change the name of his district from Nowhere Else to Somewhere Else...