Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...beautiful flowers are in bloom throughout the year. For a peso one can make his house a perfect bower of the rarest and most magnificent blossoms, although they are without perfume. Another interesting feature of the plaza is a great number of public letter-writers, called by the odd name of 'evangelists,' sitting under the arcade along one side. These gentlemen do not write with the pen, however, as do their fellows in other illiterate countries, but with typewriters. Around their desks cluster little groups of picturesque peones in cinema costumes-huge hats and white shirts, usually with...
Frightened by the glint in Joe Jordan's eye, Mae Jordan sought work, found none for a child so inexperienced and anemic as herself. Desperate, she begged odd jobs of baby tending, dish washing, floor scrubbing from residents in the apartment. One November day she sought her father radiant: "Mr. Klein and Mr. Platz want me to 'do' their apartment every day for $10 a month...
...righteous, Chautauqua-looking gentleman recently enjoyed a vacation under the cocoanut trees-his first long rest in 30 years. Automobilists who had Nebraska license plates (25,000 of them, he said) came to him, urged him to come home and run for the governorship. Charles Wayland Bryan, Baptist, Odd Fellow, Woodman, onetime Governor of Nebraska, Democratic Vice Presential candidate in 1924, has returned to his home. He now stands unopposed for the Democratic nomination. Against him the Republicans will probably nominate (in the primaries August 10) Governor Adam McMullen. The political recrudescence of the brother* of the "Great Commoner" depends...
...research revealed that the appropriations were $470,886,681 more than those of the previous session, but were six odd millions below the original estimates submitted to the 69th Congress. Senator Warren found joy in these figures: "Good times and prosperity are immediately reflected in a demand for increased as well as new governmental functions. . . . No Congress ever made a greater record or a harder and more honest and faithful effort for economy...
Purse-heavy U. S. citizens exchanged fat dollars at Paris for 34½ lean francs each-only an odd franc less than during the low-for-all-time slump (TIME...