Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George William Rendel, slight, shy, former British Minister to Bulgaria, is a long-suffering gentleman. When Minister Rendel left Bulgaria last year after the Nazis' arrival, someone planted a bomb in his luggage. No sooner had Minister Rendel and his diplomatic party arrived in the ornate lobby of Istanbul...
Governorship of a black, uncharted Java at 30, then to deal fairly with natives, to write a history of Java, to collect maps, curios, flora, fauna-and finally, against the opposition of his elders, to snatch an island and found a city (at the age of 37) dedicated to free...
Last week the Pore's new members, un-blindfolded, stole eager glances around their sanctum: at the pair of ivory tusks, brought by Teddy Roosevelt from Africa, the curios gathered from the corners of the earth by many another Porkie, the "busybodies" (V-shaped mirrors) at the windows by...
CURIOS: Dr. Vagts, a member of the Princeton faculty, said that he saw a connection between the balance of power concept in world politics and the part in the center of the Saviour's hair in da Vinci's painting, "The Last Supper." He said that the part is the...