Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...noted The End of the House of Alard by Sheila Kaye-Smith, A Room with a View (pocket edition) by E. M. Forster, The Constant Nymph by Margaret Kennedy, The Reckless Lady by Philip Gibbs "and a book called After All, whose author I could not discover. From this odd group I shall attempt no generalizations. Certainly a higher class of novel than one would expect. On the train coming back, however, there was only one volume, and that an effusion from the colorful pen of Edgar Rice Burroughs. I sat me down by the gentleman with that volume...
Died. Mrs. Mary A. Saunders, 73, first woman to earn her living by typewriting; in Leonardo, N. J. In 1875, she answered an advertisement, was shown an odd machine, taught how to run it, earned $12 a week...
...latest chainizer, calling itself Gillette Camera Stores, Inc., selling kodaks, recently opened in Manhattan with two stores and 100-odd agencies which it calls "Gillette Film Stations." At these, one buys his latent roll of film, deposits his potential pictures for developing and printing at a central laboratory with a capacity of 10,000 rolls per day, to and from which delivery trucks course...
...cent Americans, ever ready to champion militarism. The recent issue of the Beanpot has been suppressed and Miss Perkins, the editor, obliged to resign, because she had the temerity to express her disapproval of compulsory military training. There appears again the old bitter problem of free speech. It seems odd after all this has been fought over and thrashed out so thoroughly that any official leg should be left to stand upon...
...abandon overalls in favor of riding breeches, after catching sight of Mr. van Harlem, so attired, leap from his car and scale a Fifth Avenue traffic tower to find stop it's mystic clue. Or Mrs. Bourgeoise may have her life utterly wrecked by picking up an odd piece of paper on which is written. "Mayor Hylan will give you the root of all evil. Follow the Green Line." Or behold the devastation wrought in countless lives by a joyous debutante Pippa, as she acorns New York, singing on the great day of her life...