Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Irish Free State was the arena of a nation-wide battle. The weapons were ballot papers, with an odd revolver and a shillalah or two for emphasis; political armies fought for the control of the Dublin executive machinery...
...sole boast to uniqueness that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst...
...effort to recover her sight. Her foster son has deserted her. Her jewels are pawned. She has only the memory of her contemporaries, whose past brilliance still can cause her cataract-dimmed eyes to light up a little. Talking about them, she emphasizes her anecdotes with an odd, surprising gusto, amazing by contrast to her weak, quavering voice...
Preparation. Today the parts (denominations) number 200-odd, all of them organized as distinct entities. The practical necessity of relating so many parts, of discovering identity among so many entities, was established by the Edinburgh Missionary Conference of 1910. The logical necessity was established later the same year, at a convention of the Episcopal Church in Cincinnati. The man who then proposed a world conference on Faith & Order lived to see such a conference actually held, after 17 years of preparation, and to preside over it as chairman, at Lausanne, Switzerland, the past three weeks...
...discovered on Mr. Barnett's land. He could not help it, but he soon found himself in possession of an odd million dollars. Life took on new aspects. A number of people became interested in Mr. Barnett. A white lady, one Anna Laura Lowe, mar ried him in Oklahoma and again in Missouri to tie up the bargain tightly. She persuaded him to give her $550,000 (of which her lawyer received...