Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family. At Mrs. Graham's request the Supreme Court said none of the votes of Precinct 6 would be legally counted. That done, Judge Lindsey has no right to his post since, in a Republican landslide, he, a Democrat, was only able to win by the 100 odd votes of Precinct...
...Allen has brought back with him a large collection of specimens of all sorts. He has a tremendous number of small animals and birds of various shapes and colors. One of his most interesting specimens is a skin of a pangolin a very odd variety of ant eater. It is a toothless beast which lives on ants and similar insects, devouring them with its long tongue. Some of them grow to six feet in length. There is also a small variety. The animals shape strongly resembles a rather distorted and enlarged cigar which has grown a head and legs...
...error. Calvin Coolidge became a member of the college fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta at Amherst College. His Secretary should have said that he is not a Mason, an Elk, an Odd Fellow, a Woodman...
...Barker was written by Kenyon Nicholson, young Columbia University professor of dramatic art. Paradoxically, it falls short of technical efficiency the while it achieves a glorious fullness of unacademic atmosphere, characterization and emotional conflict. In the play, all the tent-show folk-hula dancer, snake-charmer, clown, odd-job men - accept with varying humors their haphazard, futile nom-adism-all except the barker, "Nifty" Miller, soul and essence of the entire raucous flimflam. He, chained like the others to the aimless tent life, holds fast to the idea that his only son will one day be a wealthy, respectable lawyer...
...made up largely of undergraduate but frequently including graduate students, have attempted to bring to the communities visited definite ideas of religion and the trend of the times, obtained through their educational experience. Not unlike this work, but of a less serious nature has been that of the twenty-odd men who have been sent out through the Speakers' Bureau to fill speaking engagements in nearby towns, at Y. M. C. A.'s, churches, community gatherings, and the like. Religion is coming to be expressed in action more and more in the present day and is less and less...