Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious reputation of 73-year-old Louis Eilshemius, whose painting was first honored by the National Academy of Design in 1892 and has since passed through various degrees of fantasy toward a vanishing point of artistic merit, received the support of a carefully pruned exhibition at the Kleemann Galleries. Billed as "All of Eilshemius," the show covers the years from 1884 to 1909. Some of Eilshemius' "twilight" paintings and landscapes still looked remarkable to connoisseurs last week, as most of his nudes looked incredibly vapid...
...verify the rumor revealed that on the third and fourth floors there were mirrors arranged so that a good view of the disaster could be had from the couch across the room, and the space in front of the windows was cleared to accomodate the speedy influx of curious. One floor had the makings of a loud speaker rigged up so that even the most minute scrape could be detected...
...curious results in the primary were made possible by a curious device to which Tammany resorted. With the Democratic organizations in four of the city's five boroughs (Brooklyn, The Bronx, Queens and Richmond) in revolt, Tammany, controlling only Manhattan, foresaw the difficulty of nominating its own candidate for mayor, bumbling Senator Royal S. Copeland, on the Democratic ticket. Therefore, besides entering Dr. Copeland in the Democratic race against the smiling Irish face of Judge Jeremiah Titus Mahoney. Tammany entered Dr. Copeland in the Republican race against the city's explosive little reform mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia (TIME...
Favorite designer of many U. S. dress buyers is Elsa Schiaparelli, daughter of an Italian archaeologist, niece of an Italian astronomer, whose passion for curious buttons, hooks, clamps, clips and other fastenings has had a more direct influence on women's clothes than that of any other modern designer...
...late Charles Fort, born in Albany in 1874, was a short story writer who developed a hobby into a passion. He became a contumacious heckler of science. For 23 years he grubbed in libraries and museums for reports of curious phenomena which science could not explain, made bales of notes from which he compiled chaotic books such as Wild Talents, The Book of the Damned, Lo! New Lands. Charles Fort demanded that science explain why statues shed blood, why frogs and periwinkles fall to earth in rainstorms, why eels appear in landlocked water. What about the swan which mysteriously appeared...