Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...total of $7,900. Governor Alvin T. Fuller of Massachusetts paid $31,000 for a picture of a girl and some red herrings by Millais.* Goya's portrait of Pepe Illo, a bullfighter of Madrid, brought $25,000. On the third day of the sale of paintings, 91 odd canvases, and some impressive ones, were sold for a total...
...moment before. Lenglen took the next three games. Wills took the seventh, another deuce game. Lenglen evened the score. Wills took another game. She was hitting her service harder now. The handsome, impassive Greek mask of her face was weary drawn. Lenglen evened the score again, Wills took the odd game?and then occurred that curiously dramatic incident which gave all the U. S. sporting sheets an opportunity to say that Miss Wills had been cheated out of the match by the stupidity of an Englishman. The score was 40-15. She needed only one point for the game...
...once through the picture does one feel that the wind-machines, the smoke-bombs, and the Kleig lights are lurking just around the corner. The sky has an odd opaque quality, unknown to this climate. The shallow waters shimmer with reflections from the clean sands below, and the proas of the natives sweep through the surf, like birds skimming the clouds. The cocoanut trees wave to and from against a high sky-line. No tricks, no artifice, no sham appears in "Moana", but only the peaceful glory of the South Seas...
...sealing wax, and call the job complete. But if the university is to be something even higher than business could imagine something finer than business could really effect, then pure science will continue to function as an organism of honest research into the whys and wherefores of this odd, but necessary universe...
...playwright he has never tired of such obvious tricks of the trade as Owen Davis uses in many of his off moments. Still as a star he remains wholly sincere and genuine. It is fortunate for his plays that he usually acts in them himself, and adds to their odd trite jumble the flickering genius of his own stage presence...