Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MYSTERIES-Knut Hamsun- Knopf ($2.50). "In the middle of the summer of 1891 a little Norwegian coast town was the scene of a series of most unusual events. A Stranger turned up in the town, a certain Nagel, a noteworthy and original charlatan, who did a heap of odd things and vanished again as suddenly as he had come...
Thus Author Hamsun begins his examination of a mad, melancholy Dane, Johan Nagel, and the heap of odd things he did. He fell in love with Dagny Kielland, who was engaged to marry a naval officer. He made friends with pauperish Minutten. He mystified the townspeople by never explaining his visit...
...undergraduate governing body,--the Student Council. Three hundred petitioners from among the three thousand or more students in the upper classes of Harvard College and in the Graduate Schools, excepting the Business School, would assure the dining hall for next year. Considering the proportion of signers among a thousand-odd Freshmen it does not seem unlikely that a complete petition might be submitted to President Lowell this spring,--should the Council decide...
...over here!" Newsgathers scurried about the decks and dock, accumulating details of the first world cruise of a floating university. Through the customs, laden with souvenirs ranging from Siamese turtles to Norwegian cheese forks, leaving their cabins cluttered with enough "junk" to fill an international museum, poured the 500-odd floating students with their variously aged traveling companions and faculty...
...experiment from start to finish, the "success" of the Floating University was a subject for much confused palaver. There were disgruntled ones who said that 75 women, from very young to quite elderly, should never have been taken along with 400-odd young males. They were hindrances and distractions, said the grumblers. They were hard to care for ashore, admitted the administration, and co-eds would not be enrolled again this autumn...