Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Recently Brander Matthews retired as Professor of Dramatic Literature at Columbia University, and became Professor Emeritus, terminating an active association of 30-odd years. Until the other noon I had never met Professor Matthews. Many of his works on the Drama I knew and admired. I had read and even published various articles on his habits of mind by men not nearly so wise. The other noon in company with William Lyon Phelps, Clayton Hamilton, Jesse Lynch Wil-liams?an ill-assorted but renowned trio ?I had an opportunity to talk with Professor Matthews. His anecdotes contain memories...
...robust instincts and patriotic tendencies who might feel inclined to pacify the pacifists to the damage of the latter if there were not a mild-mannered Col. Browning on the job as a guide toward tolerance. And besides, what business is it of the pacifists if three hundred odd students desire to acquire the gentlemanly art of equitation and lead the strenuous life without the expense of a trip Wyoming. Not to mention the pistol practice and the automobile mechanics caught by the Department...
...only moralists, but also business men, are becoming deeply interested in the habits of the 400 million odd inhabitants of the Celestial Republic. The buying power of this huge population is enormous-as British textile manufacturers and the Standard Oil in this country proved years...
About 30% of cigarette sales in China are "loose sales"-that is two or three cigarettes for a small coin. Small shop-keepers are inclined to favor this "odd lot buying," as it enables them to save the tinfoil cigarette wrappings and sell them back to the cigarette manufacturers for an additional profit...
...takes pleasure in the company of young English versifiers. How will he find the atmosphere at the University of Michigan? It is more than probable that we shall never know; for Robert Bridges of England is a man of great erudition and reticence. He will seem a bit odd, I fancy, in his lion's cage in midwest America...