Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coffin with the white lambskin apron of a Master Mason. As the frozen lumps of earth clumped down on his coffin they seemed to boom up a phrase he once cried: "I have almost had my very soul burned out in the trials of life." William Green, mine worker, Odd Fellow, Elk, Baptist, was at once chosen his successor as president...
...sent to New York for clothes and a few antiques. His taste ran to the oriental. Quite often now, behind the big yellow windows of his ballroom, saxophones giggled and clucked all night and limousines drove away in the early morning with the blinds pulled down. Odd callers were always waiting in his library, men of dignity who had suddenly become nervous, and gutter-rats dressed up like men of dignity...
...Formerly every year, now every other year, this prize is awarded for deserving new compositions. In the odd years an order is given to some proven composer for a new creation...
...gregarious animal--that means he was intended to feed in company and not in isolation or among a horde of strangers, gulping down his coffee and sandwiches. Since Memorial Hall was discontinued with its big common dining-room and club tables for friends, the habit of snatching meals at odd hours during the day has afficted the upperclassmen...
...scheming merchandiser, who captures the big store from the children and is in turn captured by a onetime countergirl whom Freddie Pardway seduced. There are power and sweep to Sweepings (the title comes from old Daniel's pennyscrimping examinations of the store's daily refuse, in the odd socks, ravelings, scraps and broken tinsel of which he finally recognizes his children). Its rapid motion is even, sure. Yet in all the 447 pages, times are penetrated as seldom as people; the pictures of Chicago's Board of Trade, her restaurants, clubs, night joints, aristocratic lakefront and booming...