Word: curious
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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CRIME AND DESTINY-Johannes Lange -Paper Books (50?). Which is more important, heredity or environment? Johannes Lange is a German and therefore methodical. He is a criminologist and therefore curious about human behavior. Lange had heard many an argument about heredity v. environment, knew that Sir Francis Gallon in 1876 had tried to show heredity prevails, by examining the histories of twins. Skeptical of Galton's extremist conclusions, Herr Professor Lange decided to adopt Galton's method but without preconceived ideas. With painstaking cunning he set about gathering data on twins one or both of whom...
...staggered home with her child in one arm, a bag of meal in the other, threw the baby in the meal chest, the bag of meal in the cradle, woke to find the child dead, signed the pledge. And this, from 10,000 Temperance Anecdotes, justly entitled "A Curious Performance": "I once heard of a man who went to a tavern one evening and at midnight was discovered in a pigsty, cuddling a teakettle and singing at the top of his voice: They said I was a beauty once, Why don't they say it now? And when attempts...
...letter from him, Irma grew anxious, went to Washington. Daniel reassured her, but soon the truth came out: he was head-over-heels in love with beautiful Mrs. Miller. Irma was heartbroken but gallant. Just in time to save the situation and the Congressman's soul came a curious concatenation of circumstances : the stockmarket crashed and took his amateurish speculations with it; beautiful Mrs. Miller hooted with laughter at the suggestion that she divorce her husband and marry Dan; a heinous appropriation bill reared its ugly head and Daniel smacked it, though in vain. The last...
...immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain Billy's Whiz Bang: "Explosion of Pedigreed Bull." With the backing of a small printer, the magazine went like wildfire. Ex-soldiers, salesmen, sporting men, bellhops and curious schoolboys bought Whiz Bang. The price-25?-soon was bringing Captain Billy $35,000 to $40,000 a month. Whiz Bang never carried advertising but by 1923 it was said to have reached a circulation of 425,000. It now claims about 150,000. Editorially, Whiz Bang was built around...
...buying. Smart, shorthaired, clip-eared brown dogs if not purchased at reputable pet shops, may turn into long-haired, white dogs when taken home. Dogs with becoming black spots may lose them in their first bath. A. S. P. C. A. officials advised dog owners to report all curious happenings at once. Such dogs are probably stolen pets, victims of an organized body of dog racketeers...