Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ordinarily, caucuses are not held until, at most, a day or two before a Congress comes in session, when its members have already assembled in Washington. The coming caucus will consist of the Republican members of the present Congress who were re-elected last fall and of the 50-odd Republicans newly elected to serve in that body. The caucus will have three major functions...
...until at length a youth leaped to the platform and organized townspeople and scholars alike to better delivery of prolonged and spontaneous hurrahs. He hurried to Passaic, N. J. (a town brought to the attention of his manager by the fact that its high school basketball team won 150-odd successive victories), there performed before a great assemblage. He played in Providence, in Boston, in 'Manhattan, in Buffalo and Rochester. He went North to Canada, stopped in Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago. Next week, he is scheduled to fill another engagement in Manhattan, then he returns to the Middle West...
...become interested in Lee?", he said, leaning back in his swivel chair. "Thirty odd years ago, when I was a young chap, a rather prominent elderly gentleman of my acquaintance said that the greatest man he ever met was Robert E. Lee. That struck me, you know, for I had never heard of him before, and yet I knew that friend of mine had met Bismarck, Von Moltke, Gladstone and a dozen other great men. Robert E. Lee must have been a remarkable character to have impressed my friend so profoundly...
...Brien congratulates the Sons of the American Revolution and the Knights of Columbus, who have done their part. He now calls to the colors the shock troops of historical research the Elks, the American Legion, the Masons, and the Odd Fellows, ignoring the W. C. T. U. and the Ku Klux Klan. The reason for this slight, in view of the Klan's unparalleled equipment for Americanization work, is unexplained...
Then, undoubtedly unconscious of the one and a half million odd dollars net profit which Mr. Samuel S. Childs is able yearly to distribute to his common stockholders, the Bulletin suggested that "if Childs proposes to charge the people twice what food is worth, some of the excess profits should go to the people instead of being devoted to Coney Island palaces...