Word: curiosity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Japanese screens, sculpture, paintings and primitive tiles may be seen in the Denman W. Ross '75 Memorial Exhibition now on view in the Fogg Museum. Although filling two rooms, this exhibit represents only a fraction of the oriental curios collected by Dr. Ross during his frequent expeditions to the East...
Supplementing her $60 a week, Maman Savage took pupils in voice, French diction, dramatics. Today she lives with her beauteous, red-haired daughter May, also a Metropolitan chorus girl, in a Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she...
Ever since the Portuguese, Dutch and British first started raiding the jungles of West Africa for slaves to work their new colonies, the hideous gods and little demons of primitive Africa have been turning up as curios in the homelands of the traders. Not until shortly after the turn of...
*In the single Chinese province of Anhwei, 250 miles remote from Nanking, 3,000,000 Chinese were last week reported starving. "It is distressing to walk the streets these days with misery and Death everywhere," reported George Birch, China Inland Mission worker. "Two-thirds of this area is without food...
The culture in the mountains is different. Here the people lived in caves, painted their pottery, and practiced "secondary burial. The archeological material in this area is seant because the caves where the remains are found have been sacked by the natives as a source for curios. It is the...