Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...review of William C. Bullitt's novel It's Not Done. Upon reading it, I discovered to my great surprise that whoever had written your review had entirely missed the very important point that this novel was laid in Philadelphia and not "in old New England." It is extremely odd that your book reviewer should have overlooked this, as the young whippersnapper of an author took no pains to conceal it, in what I consider a very impertinent, if not indecent, book! Perhaps your reviewer is among those who do not take the trouble to read the books that they...
...other items on the list which create sensations of considerable wonder are 41 odd shoes and one inner tube...
This is what music-lovers have often wished would happen. This, in substance, was what happened last Friday. Philadelphians were "dumbfounded by Stokowski's satire." Some applauded. Some hissed. Forty odd first-row patrons walked out. At last a conductor had had the courage to give a Philadelphia audience a few hints on behavior...
...Seven odd tricks is the highest legal bid. The penalties for bidding eight or more: the offender and his partner are barred from the auction; either opponent may 1) demand a new deal; 2) require the declaration to be played at seven, doubled or undoubted, by the offending side; or 3) direct that the auction revert to the last legitimate declaration "and be continued by his side from that point...
...truth discovered by the Advertiser after all, means little. Though it is true that Pango-Pango is an odd name, the value of the truth is not over powerful. In fact there are many more valuable axioms--for instance the well remembered one concerning the necessity for leisure in a civilization before the advent of culture. The Boston journal, however, has not discovered that. Journalists usually don't. Leisure to them is incidental--like editorials on Harvard...