Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid unnecessary rivalries, the Metropolitan's exhibition contained the work of no living artist, which led to one curious result: in all these pictures of a form of art which holds accuracy and fidelity to nature a chief essential, there was only one picture of a horse really galloping...
According to Landis, the real issue in the Court proposal is "the degree to which this nation shall be a Government of laws or of men." But this issue is clouded by its novelty and the "curious belief that seems to have grown up, that the court is immune and above criticism." Franklin Roosevelt is not the first president to take issue of the Court, Landis stated. "Criticism of government is the very essence of Democracy...
Around the track slowly toured a curious contraption on wheels followed by harrows and a screen. It was a '"cooker," like the ones used to melt asphalt on highways, with six blast torches to dry out the ground. At Santa Anita, called the world's best racetrack, 18 miles northeast of Los Angeles, all this was part of the world's richest horserace: the Santa Anita Handicap...
...thoroughly aroused brother and sister took their curious case to court. Proceedings were further complicated by Oliver's shady behavior, by Jane's counter-machinations, by the untoward fact that Edith, Jane's girlhood friend and business partner, who owned a controlling share in Jane's prosperous theatre, fell in love with Oliver. Altogether it took two trials, a dramatic second auction, a happy and an unhappy marriage, brisk detective work and some stiff psychological third degree before the Antigua stamp found its rightful owner...
...politicians unhindered spread their senseless palaver over the air or in the press. As far as the ultimate purpose of the legislation is concerned, the Teachers' Oath Bill is doubtless a dead letter. Educators raise their right hands and then continue teaching just as they always did. It is curious how unquestionably patriotic legislators can so easily lose sight of the fundamentals of their country's constitution in the passion of their patriotism...