Word: weirder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year's end Delacroix' place would be up for sale, and rumor had it that a nightclub was dickering for the property. The Société felt that Delacroix, who had been a close friend of Chopin, would conceivably have found le jazz hot even weirder than the art of his modernist descendents...
...farther south the Ancient Americans wandered, the weirder their civilization became. In northern Peru's coastal Viru Valley, diggers were last week excavating the whole series of civilizations that flourished there in the past 2,000 years...
...Higginbotham was very off-and-onish. One moment he'd blow an amazing chorus, and the next would be the same old jive. From some of the weirder stuff, it sounds as if Higie is trying to change his style...
Their favorites, however, are the fantastic characters who have dialed the University number in the bleak stretch between two and seven in the morning. An elderly anti-vivisectionist, convinced that Harvard Medical School had stolen his Angora, tried to wheedle a confession of catnapping out of the switchboard workers. Weirder yet was the husky-voiced chap who, informed that no Biology professors were available at four-thirty A.M., startled a sleepy operator by inquiring, "Do you know of any one else, then, who would like to buy my body? I must get $10,000 at once...