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Word: curiousness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...birth, adolescence, reception of the Muses and apotheosis. The Muses, at least, were surer on their feet than Apollo, landed more firmly after leaping just as high. Experts, disappointed in the dancing, found much to commend in Stravinsky's dry music and Stewart Chaney's restrained, curious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ballets | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...with how Olivia arranges Danny's undoing but how he nearly arranges hers. Instead of sending her scuttling to the police, Olivia's growing awareness that Danny has killed one woman and is planning to kill another gives him a fascination for her which, when a curious police inspector is examining the hatbox, makes her remove it before he gets a chance to look inside. Horrified at her reactions, more and more drawn to Danny, Olivia twice tries to run away but comes back both times. The second time is the night that Danny does away with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 10, 1937 | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Curious observers pressed closer to the four to investigate what so absorbed these mighty intellects. A flash in the sun, and a thud in the ground disclosed the answer.--mumblety pegl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 5/5/1937 | See Source »

...Curious Paper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collcctions and Critiques | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

...curious little literary paper, the "Harvard Student", was issued briefly in 1905 by a Senior, who urged undergraduates to submit contributions of prose and verse, promising to consider these "humanely...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collcctions and Critiques | 4/30/1937 | See Source »

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