Word: curiosities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Believing that 16th century Dutch architecture would blend well with the Gold Coast surroundings, Wheelwright hoped to design a Flemish castle in miniature. Once the plans were approved, he sailed to Holland, and traveling through the canals by tugboat, spent two years gathering the antiques and curios that were later...
One of the world's principal research centers for anthropologists, zoologists, biologists, botanists, geologists and specialists in solar radiation, the Smithsonian surfers troubles that are continually compounded. Already it has 33,200,000 assorted curios and relics in its catalogue and more pour in every year.
Once the hall has been cleaned out and tidied up, the Casino elders plan to fill it with relics and sport curios. On its walls will hang photographs of such court immortals as Richard D. Sears, Robert D. Wrenn, Bill Tilden and Don Budge. The racquets they used and the...
Her joy cracks when her long-forgotten husband, Marvin Macy, comes back. A lazy, flashy lout, he quickly has Cousin Lymon following him like a puppy. A showdown has to come, and it does: Miss Amelia fights Marvin Macy with her fists, is on the way to winning when, at...
Yet the 60 million would not only get there and buy an armload of curios, but all would get back home on time, by a national instinct for large plans and desperate maneuvering.