Word: curiousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went back to Buffalo, had a gallows built in the jail yard, a canvas stretched overhead to prevent the curious from seeing from neighboring housetops. After taking unusual precautions to have the execution go off swiftly and without a hitch, he took a stand where he could not see Matricide Patrick, and sprung the trap...
...Anderson discovered the positive electron under curious circumstances. He was not looking for it, and its existence had already been foreshadowed by a British theorist only three years older than...
...post-War years. Last week this earnest British writer offered a novel with a theme no less ambitious but a good deal less sharply defined: the relation of the feminist movement, the War and changing social standards to "the private destinies of individuals." The result is another of those curious hybrid volumes that have recently become numerous in English writing-a long (601 pages), formless book, half-tract and half-fiction, slightly radical, a little scandalous by pre-War standards, not quite a sentimental story, somewhat highbrow, almost good...
...Bull: "I don't think there was any Fascism in Italy before Communism began. The same thing was true of Germany. Force begot force, as it always does. In this country, thank God, these two forces are not worth that together!"-here Mr. Baldwin snapped his fingers. "A curious feature," he continued, "is that at this moment in England we are reversing the process of Italy and Germany, and the petty efforts of the Fascists are making Communists. We will take jolly good care that neither of them will take root...
...other magazines. According to FORTUNE, since the practice began a year-and-a-half ago. some 60 such articles have first been planted in magazines like Scribner's, Forum and Century, American Mercury, North American Review, Today The Rotarian. All Reader's Digest gets from this curious deal is the right to reprint what it had originally created. This maneuver indicates that, if necessary, Editor Wallace could furnish his large and loyal following with a readable publication without having recourse to the files of other magazines...