Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rooms were occupied. Its parlors and lobbies were filled not only with those who dressed like President Combs but with carriers in shirt sleeves, without neckties. The bars did little business, conversation was quiet, and the Washington Herald said admiringly of the crowd: "It was interested and curious, but unawed...
...light last week came a tale about Patient Roosevelt's stay in St. Mary's Hospital, Rochester: Among those curious to see James Roosevelt was a young nurse who made bold to enter his room at 6 a. m. while his night nurse was out writing her report. Waking the patient, the youngster popped a thermometer into his mouth, gazed her fill, removed the thermometer, marched out. When Patient Roosevelt asked his doctor if he must be wakened so early, the young nurse was discovered, fired-but soon given a job in another hospital...
...Really I do not care about those false statements," wrote Jan Bat'a. "I am only curious to see whether there is still someone in Germany today with the courage to place truth above lying propaganda. I would not be ashamed to be a Jew despite all the attacks of the German press. I would feel equal with all people...
...brisk October morning last year, in a parking lot at North Arlington, N. J., a policeman, mildly curious, wakened a pimply youth of 18 asleep at the wheel of a large sedan. The boy yawned, told the inquisitive policeman to look in the car's trunk. The good cop did so and shuddered. Wedged in the trunk was the mangled body of Dr. James G. Littlefield, 63, stuffed in the rear seat the body of his wife. The boy, Paul Dwyer of South Paris, Me., then told a strange and horrible story: that he had killed the old doctor...
...Curious parallels show in the two authors' backgrounds as well. Son of a Midwest surgeon, pseudonymous William Blake, now in his 403, has been a broker and financial editor in Wall Street and Europe, four years ago went into the grain business in Antwerp, where Christina