Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The library has its historical curios: among them, Harvard's first character (1650), the one surviving book from John Harvard's library, and Edwin Booth's last cigar. But its more significant treasures are the great numbers of early printed books, many of them dating from before 1500, and its...
And he's been getting plenty of answers to a recent ad in the CRIMSON. Apparently the shrunken head game is a bigger one than the public realizes, for more than one reply comes from Cambridge itself, where the layman considers these curios not exactly run-of-the-mile objects...
Showman Elman (who gets people like Kathleen Winsor, Helen Jepson and Ac tress Elissa Landi to add atmosphere) sells mostly curios of the famous and infamous. Samples: Adolf Hitler's dice ($150); Thomas Alva Edison's personal dental chair ($300) ; a spoon made by Paul Revere ($105); Mark...
Farmers in their Sunday best filed past the casket, in the front room of Ade's rustic nine-room house. They saw his study, piled high with curios-including a life-sized cardboard figure of his friend, Will Rogers, which had once stood in front of a theatre. The...
Meantime, in his home on Longfellow Road. Dr. Reischauer lives with his wife and two children in an atmosphere that is decidedly Oriental. Though the family doesn't eat with chopsticks, the living rooms are filled with curios and souvenirs of the East. All tend to support the view that...