Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that Mr. Anderson has no sense of humor. This is only partially true. Wit is present in his autobiography, though seldom in his novels. Many Marriages (TIME, Mar. 10, 1923) with its fun unintended, becomes understandable in tIe light of the autobiography. One can almost forgive him for that odd book after reading this fine...
...went to the Vienna Volksopcr (People's Opera) and thence to the Hofoper (Imperial Court Opera). She would have come to the U. S. in 1914, but the War intervened and her Metropolitan début was postponed to 1921. Out of a potential repertoire of some fifty-odd roles-including German, French and Italian operas-she has appeared in ten at the Metropolitan. She is especially lauded for her Elisabeth in Tannhaüser, Elsa in Lohengrin, Tosca in Tosco. Jenufa is now added to the list...
...Story is of minor importance. Matthias Boryna was a man of substance, full of years but unbowed by them, strong as an ox, hard as a rock. In 60 odd years as a husbandman, Boryna had buried two wives; but the death of his second left him not averse to yet another union particularly as things were not going well on his land. His favorite cow died. His children, married and single, were ever on the watch for what they could...
...Kansas, William Allen White, who stood up on an anti-Klan flivver and matched himself against both Republican and Democratic candidates for Governor, ran third in the tri-partite race. Said he afterwards of the odd tens of thousands of people who sup. ported him: "They are good people. They deserved a better candidate...
Evidently the stock market expected President Coolidge's reelection, and more or less "discounted" it last August. But it apparently failed to anticipate the landslide which promised to strengthen his hold on Congress, or the smashing defeat dealt the radicals. Including "odd lots" (transactions for less than 100 shares), considerably over 2,000,000 shares of stock a day were sold on the New York Stock Exchange for several days in succession, in the heaviest trading seen in several years...