Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General surprise was expressed that Turkey accepted so small an oil sop. In British-mandated Irak, the exploitation of oil is expected to gladden British babbitts, while British churchmen tenderly foster the local Christians-numbering 79,000 odd, engulfed by 87,000 Jews and 2,500,000 Moslems...
...shimmered majestically, clad in a gown of silver tissue overlaid with tulle embroidered with pearls, wearing a tiara of diamonds, the blazing Order of the Garter, many another twinkly gem of price and a train of Irish point lace. As the supreme moments ticked on, many of the 300-odd female presentees glanced nervously at the back of a court bouquet. Therein had been embedded against ultimate emergencies a tiny mirror. The curtsying began...
...will fit the mood of many, alike those who have received postals and those who have not. In the next few days, most of them will glory in the air of decay in which they perform the last rites and, between jumping on recalcitrant trunks and stuffing odd laundry cases, will heave the sighs of relief that indicate. "It is all over". One hopes that the return will be solaced by the arts of summer...
...more concerts, but the directors were deaf even to the pleas of the charming Leginska, who had been canvassing for subscriptions. Would the People's Symphony survive the crisis? That question was answered last week by the announcement that there would be next season a new orchestra?its 100-odd members to be drawn from the old?to be known as the Boston Philharmonic, Ethel Leginska its permanent conductor...
...Earl Carroll, theatrical pander. The issue: to convict Mr. Carroll of perjury in sworn testimony he gave to two Grand Juries last winter when the Government investigated a Washington's Birthday party given by him in his theatre?a party at which, according to some of the 500-odd "nighthawks" present, Mr. Carroll had filled a wheeled bathtub with champagne made zestier by having a nubile nymph in Carroll's pay (Chorine Joyce Hawley) strip off her chemise and sit naked in the tub as the drinkers dipped their swirling glasses...