Word: odd
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Finally must come the powerful personality whose prescience made possible The Miracle. Morris Gest came to America as an ignorant immigrant from Russia. From odd jobs in the streets of Boston, he became an attache in the Theatre. He has risen through a series of phenomenal coups to the position of dictator of theatrical spectacle in America. After a number of staggeringly magnificent musical extravaganzas (Aphrodite, Chu Chin Chow, etc.) he introduced the Chauve Souris, the Moscow Art Company, Duse, The Miracle. He has the combined temperaments of the no-limit poker player and P. T. Barnum, plus dominating artistic...
Among the fifty-odd candidates who reported, R. F. Cordingley '25, E. F. Herrman '25, and J. E. Toulmin '25 are the only pitchers of last year's squad who have begun to work regularly. K. N. Hill '24, whose excellent relief pitching in the final Yale game last June puts him among the leading aspirants for a regular berth, has been at the field for practice. He is still favoring a football injury, however, and so has not yet put on a uniform. Grosvenor Bemis '24 and Philip Spalding '25, both of whom saw service last year...
...never allowed his academic knowledge to interfere with a really unusual sense of journalism; but he has never allowed journalism to run away with his sense of true criticism, based upon his academic training. Perhaps he can be rated as our only academic journalist. His admirations are sometimes odd considering his background. He has praised Sherwood Anderson and found reason to admire Black Oxen...
...didn't take me long to get an introduction. . . . For quite a while? several years?I lived in another city, and did not see her often. . . . Yet even when she was inaccessible it gave me pleasure to think about her existence. . . . From time to time I sent her some odd trifle or curio that I hoped might please her; at first she returned them, faintly reproving, but with so calm a courtesy that I could see she did not resent my attentions. ... I could never understand how she got the reputation of being ill-natured or cold-hearted (there were...
MONSIEUR JONQUELLE-Melville Davisson Post - Appleton ($2.00). Twelve ingenious tales in which the suave M. Jonquelle, Prefect of Police of Paris, deciphers an extraordinary cryptogram, solves an odd murder, outwits the man with steel fingers, finds the secret of the mottled butterfly, etc. A series of admirable detective puzzles, dexterously contrived...