Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Came a delegation of alien-born U.S. citizens, 40-odd strong, and the President read to them: "It is not very long, as History views matters, since all of us were alien to this soil. I suppose that if Methuselah . . . should drop in on our little party, he would regard us all as upstarts...
...Senators in the Senate 65 are lawyers and former judges, as are also 300 of the 435 Congressmen. In round figures two-thirds of both Houses of Congress are lawyers, and it is perfectly safe to say that among these 350 odd lawyers and judges in the two branches of Congress there are many better lawyers or at least as good lawyers as are now on the Supreme Bench of the nation. . . . Yes, it would be safe to say that there are more good lawyers in the House and Senate today than have sat on the Supreme Bench...
Louis Hart of Washington. "First he was a lawyer; then an insurance agent; for 14 years he was secretary of the Odd Fellows in the State of Washington. He joined the Maccabees and the Elks, the Masons and the Red Men, the Ancient Order of United Workmen; in fact, he joined everything that came to Washington. He never made any money, but he made a lot of friends. He became 'Brother Hart' to thousands of his fellow-citizens. And after a while he loomed up as a good man to have as Lieutenant-Governor. But nobody thought of running Louis...
...richest man in Central Europe and much beloved by the Viennese whom he assisted financially on sundry and odd occasions. He was also a patron of the arts and for some time supported the famed producer Max Reinhardt, for whom he built a theatre. So fond was he of appearing in the public limelight that he lived with all the pomp and ceremony of royalty, even traveling in the Kaiser Karl's private parlor car, which he bought...
...have known Bercovici for some years. It was John O'Hara Cosgrave of the Sunday World who first made use of his talent for limning the odd foreign character in a pseudo-fact story of New York life. Around the office of the World Bercovici used to be a wandering and slow-moving figure, his soft voice puncturing the bang of typewriters, smoothly but insistently. He is one of those quiet people, born to be persistent and destined for success. He and his ilk are important to America because they furnish us with a type of poetry which enriches...