Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Robert Loraine, excellent English actor, who 20 odd years ago first played the shows of Bernard Shaw for these United States, was needlessly excellent...
Thus the grizzled Aristide may have reflected that by appointing M. Loucheur his Finance Minister he has firmly drawn to himself the 45 odd votes Loucheur and his friends are supposed to control in the Chamber. When Loucheur vanished, his votes remained with Briand, It might now be possible to slip these votes as ready political coin into the pocket of a more popular financier. There were those who said last week that the astute Briand winked as he summoned his old friend, the "safe and sane," self-made Senator Paul Doumer, to be his Finance Minister...
...eight evenings at sundown, beginning with the Sabbath eve, (Friday) almost every Jewish household assembled before an odd-shaped candelabra, a candleholder with nine sockets-eight in as straight array as a well drilled military squad, the ninth in the solitude of the leader, the pilot. Each evening the paterfamilias, as family priest, lit the pilot, handed it most carefully over to his youngest to light; on the first night of Channukah, one taper, on the second two, until on the eighth night the children blinked with dazzled delight before the nine bright, golden flame-tips that bobbed, nodded, winked...
Without becoming lurid, it may be baldly stated that no less than nine major revolutions and at least a score of minor revolts have been put down during the ten odd years in which Señor Leguía has worn the presidential sash of Peru. The old semifeudal, politico-military aristocracy has resisted long and bitterly the dominance of Leguía, admittedly a champion of the middle class, of industrialism, and even of the aboriginal Indians of Peru, who have been exploited immemorially by the landed descendants of the Spanish conquerors...
...grad," thereby lessening exaggerated publicity. Bowl and stadium will be more sparsely occupied but also more sportsmanlike. The system, in brief, is that long in vogue at the English universities, the "championship" of our four class teams taking the place of the "intercollegiate" series among the twenty odd colleges of Oxford or Cambridge...