Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...16th Century, "are so foolish by nature that a juggler, a pardon-peddler, a mule with bells . . . will gather a bigger crowd than a good evangelic preacher ever could." Four centuries later, between 1920 and 1935, Parisian jugglers and pardon-peddlers were gathering one of the biggest, strangest crowds in French history-a throng of U.S. expatriates, fleeing the New World of Harding, Coolidge, and their own disconsolate selves. Says Samuel Putnam, who went to Paris in 1926 to translate the works of Rabelais, and stayed seven years, writing sometimes as art correspondent for New York newspapers: ". . . It was perhaps...
...Biscuit? To decrease international tension caused by misunderstanding, representatives of some 500 U.S. organizations (the exact figure was undetermined) met in Philadelphia last week. They had been asked to advise the U.S. delegates to UNESCO. The meeting was the strangest infusion of brotherhood since William Penn came there to found "a greene Country Towne" in 1682-or at least since Karl Marx's First International broke up there...
Togliatti's address had decided the issue, and all the deputies knew it. But the debate dragged on in desultory fashion till 2 a.m., when the Assembly's strangest alliance won by a vote...
...Strangest visitor to the cellar is a U.S. Army Negro chaplain, the Rev. Hoseah Washington Smith, of Jesus Church, Beulah, Louisiana. At first Yid thinks the chaplain is a sucker who will pay 60 smokes for Eve. But the Rev. Mr. Smith has a package which he says contains "calories...
...Democratic side there was mostly silence. On the recommendation of his party leaders, Harry Truman did not even make a breath on the cold, unfriendly air. It was one of the strangest performances on record: with defeat staring his party in the face, Harry Truman figuratively taped his lips, apparently did not even intend to stump for hard-pressed Democrats in Missouri. One of his visitors last week reported that he was already talking in terms of what he will do when Republicans run the House...