Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Earl of Scarbrough set out to lead a "Crusaders' Pilgrimage" to the Holy Land last week. He led the Earl of Galloway, the Countess Haig, the Countess Cromer, Baron Lamington and an odd hundred of almost equally distinguished pilgrims. He led them as Subprior of the English Grand Priory of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (TIME, Jan. 4). He will lead them on a month's journey to the ancient crusading strongholds of the order-to Jerusalem, to Bethlehem, to Jericho...
...want to know how many thousand words it took--but, well, never mind. Guess a hundred, double it, multiply that by two, add an odd fifty for good measure and you'll be pretty near it. Oh yes, Dreiser wrote almost half a million. If anybody else and done it--but, of course, nobody would have--but if anybody else had, the publishers would have said, yawning. "Well, cut that in half, throw away half of that, re-write the remainder four times, looking sharply for split infinitives and dangling participles, and then perhaps, perhaps we shall take a chance...
...delightful little gesture about the man who abridged in Bridgeport. That has flavor. And the characters enjoy a certain spiciness, perhaps the sparkler of impossibility. For aside from the old mother who was so very wise and middle western and the stage manager with a penchant for odd books, they move and have their being in a rather crude and unusual fashion--being more romantic than classic, much more...
...that a real gentleman would do a thing like that. Of course there are times when it would be intriguing, Haven't you wished you could place just a small bottle upon the head of some recalcitrant lady to silence her for a few minutes. You haven't? How odd. It makes them look so happy. For never is one so beatific looking as when beneath a lily and the tears of his friends he dreams of Elysian bars...
...will enable us to have a good two-mile course, and an upstream Henley, course, which will be sheltered enough to row over at any time. It will also allow us to compare our crews with other American crews, which is impossible at present because we race over an odd distance...