Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oldest, strangest and most patrician indoor court game is court-tennis, played with curved rackets shaped like little shovels, and hard, heavy balls. During the 16th Century, the game was so popular that people said there were more court-tennis players in Paris than ale-drinkers in England. One Englishman, Henry VIII, liked it so much that he had a court, with benches in the dedans (netted opening in the wall) for his courtiers, built into Hampton Court. Court-tennis has preserved its prestige at the price of its popularity. Henry VIII's benches are still in existence...
...which one Upton Sinclair, novelist, captured the California Democratic primaries in August, 1934, was elected Governor in November, and two years later had not only abolished poverty in California but completely undermined the capitalistic system and sent the spectre of Fascism fleeing from the shores of America. The strangest thing is that Sinclair seems actually to believe in the possibility of his pipe-dream coming true...
...rank with his life of Christ and his "metabiological treatise" on God. The excerpts from his criticisms of Lawrence's books give new substance to Middleton Murry's position as the ablest critic in England; it is unfortunate that the text should show him forth as one of the strangest men she has ever produced...
...packing family. Now and then he picked up a little money as a racetrack tipster, a baseball umpire, a film extra. Once he and his good friend "Kid McCoy," oldtime prizefighter and ex-convict, were in such straits that McCoy wheedled climes from a street crowd to view "the strangest dwarf in the world." When he showed them Sloan, McCoy explained: "I bet you never saw such a big dwarf in your life...
Thunder on the Left (adapted by Jean Ferguson Black; Henry Forbes, producer). Christopher Morley's story, which 100,000 people have bought since it was published in 1925, is a strange and lovely book. One of the strangest qualities has now been revealed for the first time: it is adaptable to the stage...