Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular perusal of your letters department at length has had the curious effect of impelling me to hazard a contribution. Which is particularly extraordinary because I have no errors to call to your attention...
There are Keatsean echoes in the title poem. And more than echoes. Here is a poet at work on one of the curious monuments of our times, giving it that inner meaning without which nothing is worth anything. Indeed, it is this reviewer's opinion that Mr. Parson poem ought to be exhibited along with the glass flowers themselves; that every viewer of these "mimic plants" ought to read this poem as he stares in curious fascination at them. For Mr. Parson has symbolized them, has defined them as the idle curiosity they really are, their verisimilitude to nature only...
...That curious observation obviously demanded explanation, and indignant Columnists Pearson & Allen were glad to give it. As written and dispatched by United Feature Syndicate (Scripps-Howard) to its 300 subscriber newspapers, including two Hearstpapers, the day's column had contained in addition to the above quotation a startling piece of news. Under Hearst pressure, United Feature had ordered this news killed...
...drunk wanders in. Sometimes a motor car strikes a pedestrian outside the Institute's park and he gets first aid in the hospital. But usually the medical staff have lots of time for the serene preoccupations of Science, are agitated upon rare occasions by the visit of a curious Rockefeller...
...down 6, Allied Chemical down 13, and the Dow-Jones industrial stock average down 6½ points, including the biggest single day's drop since July 26, 1934. Market observers saw in this no mere repetition of the milder reaction in April 1936, with which it had a curious day by day parallel. At week's end as stock prices leveled off on solid ground an air of ingenuous satisfaction was all too plain in Washington. Mr. Roosevelt had apparently done a good job of deflation by suggestion, and the behavior of London banks in restricting credit...