Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...patient, eloquently reported Dr. Tucker last week on one of the strangest cases ever printed in the Virginia Medical Monthly, "She was a nice little girl in short dresses rocking in her chair. She lead simple things but rather badly; she craved attention; she laughed sometimes and at others she would cry a little. She talked childishly, pleasantly or was mischievous and delighted in trying to play jokes on or fool the doctors and nurses...
...Strangest of U. S. social experiments, these communist groups are now vaguely remembered as something between a co-operative and a free-love colony. Most suc cessful, most notorious of all communist experiments was the Oneida Community, scene of the "world's one great experiment in human eugenics." The subject of many a historical sidelight, Oneida Community last week filled the background of an auto biography written by one of its "eugenic" descendants, whose father, John Humphrey Noyes, founded and led the Community for more than 30 years in the light of "scientific propagation and true Christian Communism...
...Rothschild castle in Austria, the Duke of Windsor cheerily engaged a staff of body servants from local applicants. Strangest post-Abdication event was when the Duke, hitherto notorious as Edward of Wales and as King Edward for his chronic absence from church, suddenly drove in on Sunday to the English Church of Vienna. He chatted at the door with U. S. Minister to Austria George Messersmith & wife, invited them to luncheon, but they had a previous engagement. Then, like abdicated Kaiser Wilhelm II who incessantly takes part in divine service at Doom, abdicated King Edward VIII went to the lectern...
...Strangest aspect of the career of the late Colonel T. E. Lawrence was the astonishing lack of success that attended his efforts to keep out of the public...
...husband and 47 years before the publication of his letters. As he had destroyed in 1885 all that he could recover, as well as his diaries and notes, her collected correspondence, published last week in an imposing volume of 561 pages, threw a clear light on one of the strangest characters in U. S. political and literary life. The strongest impression they communicate is that Adams had stupidly patronized a vital, vivid, unexpected character who wrote almost as well as he did and who had a spontaneous liveliness that matched his dry wit. Marian, familiarly known as "Clover," rattled...