Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Viking. Although the odd, no-colored daylight of the camera suggests, by the contrast of shadows, all colors, producers have always been dissatisfied with this virtue of their medium just as with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even...
...Daughter or Millionaire's Wife; their Son, an imbecile sample of Young England; their two Daughters, one beautiful of face, one a Major in the Salvation Army, who tries to convert her father; two Suitors, a noisy Nitwit and a Professor of Greek who becomes by the odd and engaging circumstances of the plot, heir presumptive to the Millionaire's munition works and who, by the odd and engaging developments of the thesis, is not thereby deprived of the affections of the second daughter." It is not so called, because George Bernard Shaw wrote it in 1905, before...
...Laurence Stallings are mysterious to contemplate. He wrote Plumes, a good and savage book. He wrote, with Maxwell Anderson, What Price Glory, a strong though over-rated play. Then he played with the moving pictures and the result was The Big Parade. When in Manhattan, he lives at odd hours in an inconspicuous apartment house and it was during his odd hours in the apartment house that he wrote, with Oscar Hammerstein II, Rainbow, a musical play which contains a mule and a catchy song called "I Like...
...general, the National Horse Show proceeded much as it has in other years. Horsewomen dragged their acquaintances into boxes and compelled them to use constantly whatever odd phrases they knew connected with horses, as "hocks," "hind-quarters," "withers" or "whiffle-tree." Astonishingly pretty girls rode enormous, savage hunters around the tanbark enclosure and judges, in silk hats, permitted blue ribbons to be pinned to the dark, nervous faces of exactly 160 superbly tall and graceful winners...
...odd coincidence that the three outstanding new women office-seekers in the campaign were all named Ruth. All ran for Congress. All were widows, two were grandmothers. Two were able daughters of famed politicos. All three campaigned without emphasis on their sex. They were two Republicans and one Democrat, but all represented the new type of political woman. They were all ladies of greater wealth than previous women Congressmen have been. One's husband had been a Senator and his seat in the Senate was her ultimate goal. But none was a Representative's widow, as has usually...