Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...classes to realize that TIME has caught the reactions of the British public far more accurately and honestly than any other publication or paper. Concerning the reactions of New York movie audiences, let me say that their inclinations are usually painful to civilized people. Characterized by sloppy sentiment, curious changeability, delirium and misplaced loyalties, they are not the reactions of the British masses. After all, the majority of the British people are not those who stand in the streets and yell, and I feel that, while saddened by the necessity of Mr. Baldwin's course, they none the less...
...issue of LIFE, on p. 27, under the reproduction of The Sailors' Barracks, by Italy's Giorgio de Chirico, is the remark that "The colonnade is her trademark." Now, admitting that de Chirico is Italian, an artist, and interested in horses and colonnades, I am curious to know whether "he is a she or she is a he." It is rather confusing, you must admit...
...Kansas, Alfred Mossman Landon, and all the newshawks in the executive office lobby of the White House grinned with him. After a call, by Presidential invitation, which had been prolonged into an hour's chat, Alf Landon had just emerged, and for one day Franklin Roosevelt had the curious experience of being thrown into the shade by his political rival of 1936. Alf Landon gave Washington newshawks the impression not only of being a good loser but of being a fine fellow. Publicly and privately those who had been far from pro-Landon during the campaign loudly spoke their...
News from Spain itself last week featured such curious things as that the Radical Madrid Government had just won the Grand Prize in its own lottery; that middle-of-the-road Spanish President Manuel Azaiia was now refusing to have anything to do with proletarian Premier Largo Caballero who remained at Valencia. In a mountain retreat back of Barcelona, the President said: "I feel better here reading a great deal and walking with my wife...
...always sought and usually found. In China nothing so takes the bloom off a proposed solution, nothing makes a Chinese statesman so unwilling to bite on it, as simplicity. There could be in China last week no simple solution, and as usual the complex story was replete with curious characters...