Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Easy Come, Easy Go. This play is advertised as the 100th from the pen of Owen Davis. As a matter of fact he has written 130 odd, and become financially at least, the most successful of our native dramatists. Among his plays are the appalling melodramas of the early days (Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model), riotous farces (The Nervous Wreck) and the sound and moving Pulitzer Prize Play, Icebound. This latest falls into the second category...
...nine years genial, popular Alfred Human has ably filled the office of managing editor for Musical America. Last week he announced that he is leaving to start a magazine of his own-Singing. Said he: "An odd fact it is that, though there are in the U. S. 250,000 vocal students and 50,000 professional singers, no special publication has ever been devoted to their interests. I have engaged contributing editors to write about operas, concerts, oratorios, folk lore, language study, repertoire...
...comnittee of the Federation of British Industries is urging that a 20% increase in value be added to the penny. There would then be 10 pennies to the shilling and 200 to the pound; a fair start at decimals for Britishers long wedded to "crowns," "farthings," and other odd lot coins...
...modest brown sandals had the misfortune to be recognized everywhere he went. Fleeing at last in desperation to the Grand Central Station, he vanished like smoke. It is believed that by carrying his own luggage he disguised himself as a Pullman porter and is even now collecting small odd specimens of American gold to take back with him to the coast of Africa...
...destroyed Parliament building, rebuilt after a former fire 30 odd years ago, "it was universally conceded to have been improved by the calamity." Built at the worst "period" of Occidental architecture, it had become delapidated with the decades; and plans for a new building have been in progress for years...