Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land now called Germany there appeared some six centuries ago a curious and fearsome phenomenon. Suddenly and inexplicably large crowds began to dance in the streets with furious abandon, screaming, writhing, foaming at the mouth. The mania spread from city to city, new victims being inspired by sight of wandering sufferers, until most of Central and Northern Europe was a howling, leaping pandemonium. Uncontrollable, the dancers heeded no barriers, dashed out their brains against stone walls, pranced off bridges. Those caught in time were turned over to priests for lifting of curses, casting out of demons...
...Another curious phenomenon which Uncle Earnest pointed out was the differences of attitude among anthropologists according to nationality. "While there is, of course, no unanimity of opinion as to man's origin among the German students, it is worthy of note that the prevalent and perhaps predominant sentiment of Ger man anthropologists is and has been for a number of decades decidedly pro-ape. . . . If the Germans are on the side of the apes, the English have arrayed themselves almost solidly on the side of the angels. Thus the opinion of Sir Arthur Keith and Le Gros Clark separates...
...LINCOLN MURDERED?-Otto Eisenschiml-Little, Brown ($3.50). It may have been Booth's idea, says Author Eisenschiml, but it was Secretary of War Stanton's curious negligence in protecting Lincoln that was really responsible for the murder...
...Negro Renaissance" in the 1920s played to the biggest white audience since the Civil War, started an apartment-house boom on Harlem's swanky sugar Hill, put on one of the most curious performances in U.S. letters. Among noted Negro writers of that peiod Claud McKay appeared earliest, made his career the best barometer of white intest in that strange awakening. A Long Way from Home tells...
Robert G. Rouillard, the attendant at the front door of Widener who daily examines thousands of books for the proper identification marks, says that the hardest part of his job is answering impossible questions. The beginning of the year when curious Freshmen are most abundant, is the most trying period, he says, with such queries as whether one goes up or down in the elevator to get to the fifth floor, and shouldn't the title "Harry Elkins Widener, A.B. 1917" be changed to A.D., typical of what he has to answer...