Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...under the title "My Favorite Stories." This series was too easy; and not funny enough. Readers who hear funny stories, read funny papers, go to vaudeville shows, had heard most of the stories. Some few readers were particularly dismayed. "Are we," they asked, "to have more of the odd taste displayed by Mr. Cobb at a dinner to Calvin Coolidge last spring in Manhattan given by the United Press Association? With the President and Mrs. Coolidge present, Mr. Cobb concluded festivities with a story of a child afflicted with internal rising and active nausea...
...Odd, but M. Balieff is not a Russian at all. He was born in Erzerum, Armenia, of a merchant family which held up their hard worked hands in horror when young Nikita divulged a yearning for the stage. Nikita shrugged his not, in those days, so very hardworked shoulders, deserted the family, who promptly cast him off, and was presently heard knocking at the stage door of the great Art Theatre in Moscow...
...University fall tennis tournament is now well under way, with most of the fourth round played off and the original 250-odd entries reduced to about 30, according to R. M. Bennett '28, manager of the tennis team...
...atmosphere of old Heidelberg that interests him mainly. The story is spread thin-being nothing more unusual than the one about the princeling who went to college and fell in love with the barmaid. But the beer-quaffing, the jolly good-fellowship and the intrusion at odd moments of the ridiculous pomposities that beset princes of every romance, are the details that Director Lubitsch loves to fondle and set forth. In the end the prince returns to marry a very unattractive body with a long title. The little maid turns sadly away to face what seems to mean a career...
...brilliantly. Last year he played his first English-speaking role as an old man in We Americans. He nearly always plays old men, though he himself is only 26. The Yiddish Theatre will probably have to get along without its old man for some time now. It is odd that John