Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...What may redeem Tom is his own first sentence, the generalization: "All men are blowhards." But how far removed from Huck's amiable unmorality is all this Tom-talk of moral credit. How strange that two products of like environments should see things so differently in retrospect. How odd that Huck the outcast should write with such contentment while Tom the respected citizen has loathing in his memory and joy, strident because vicarious, only in perfections yet to be. Both the books are written for middle-aging people. Who shall say which is wiser...
...singular fatuity in all of them. It is interesting that over 300 students should take the absolute pacifist position but one wonders how many of them, for instance, could outline the duties and sphere of action of the Permanent Court of International Justice, or if the 700 odd who would support some wars and not others, know the League of Nations Council definition of an aggressive war, and the details of the Locarno agreement. The resolution on the cooperative system displays a very hazy grasp of economic theory. Do its supporters know the successes and failures in cooperative marketing...
From Panama came news last week of one Aime H. L. Tschiffley, 30-odd, blue-eyed, redhaired, freckled, tanned, who had arrived at Colon from Buenos Aires, whence he departed Apr. 23, 1925, with two gelding criollos (horses) of the Patagonian pampas, one of which he was trying to ride from the Argentine to New York. The second horse carried a pack. They had crossed salt deserts, the high Andes, skirted Lake Titicaca, plunged through Ecuadorian jungles (where Mr. Tschiffley, whom the South American press had dubbed "Don Quixote de la Mancha," had to blanket the animals heavily to save...
...Flaming Youth makes successful love in the desert fashion. In the East when a man claps his hands twice, slaves rush out, carry the designated women off to be bathed and anointed, then served up to their lord and master. Herein, the high producer clapped his hands and 90-odd chorines went to the showers. There is a mystery and a romance about the East. A huge cast, gorgeous settings, some good singing and Vivienne Segal make The Desert Song alluring, but the sands of Broadway do not burn...
...Life and Times of Martha Hepplethwaite" is the pretentious title Mr. Sullivan has chosen for his volume, this being the first, and probably the best, of the thirty-odd selections that he offers. And Martha is an extraordinary girl. She is Mr. Sullivan's stenographer, with a penchant for turning somersaults and handsprings in the office, taking dictation while dangling by one leg from a chandelier, and using her employer's purple suspenders for exercisers, with inkwells tied to the ends for weighs. You can imagine what a hard time poor Mr. Sullivan has with...