Word: odd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week asked a circuit court in Detroit to restrain Homer Martin from consummating an "illegal conspiracy" with Ford "to disrupt the union and establish a company-dominated fake. . . .:' Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer suspected that a deal was in the making whereby canny Mr. Bennett would deliver 100,000-odd Ford workers (and union votes) to Mr. Martin and put Ford Motor Co. on good terms with the National Labor Relations Board. This would also relieve the pressure of a C. I. 0. boycott against Ford products and place the president of U. A. W. in debt to Henry Ford...
...this phrase sounds a trifle odd and strained at the moment, surely it is not because of any inherent peculiarity, but because our ears of late have been assaulted with catchwords of far different and more ominous connotations which appear to sway the world...
...Votes (RKO Radio). Latest and youngest addition to the long roster of Hollywood "geniuses" is Director Garson Kanin, whose specialty is making silk purses out of sows' ears. A onetime Broadway actor and assistant to Broadway Producer George Abbott, Director Kanin started his cinema career as an odd-job man for Sam Goldwyn in 1937, when he was 24. Last year RKO somewhat skeptically allowed him to direct a B-picture called A Man to Remember, which was equipped with a no-star cast and budgeted for a mere $119,000. Kanin turned it into an excellent picture, followed...
...oddest outfits in the very odd business of radio is Blackett-Sample-Hummert Inc. Not only is the company the No. 1 buyer of radio time, it is the No. 1 producer of radio material-and, incidentally, a big source of professional exasperation...
Last week the taste of Mozart's letters offered by Critic Turner was extended into a whole banquet by the publication for the first time in English of the complete Mozart family correspondence.** Gathering, editing and translating the 600-odd letters of the collection had cost Emily Anderson, a publicity-shy British music-lover and scholar, ten years of scholarly effort. Readers of the newly-published letters found Critic Turner's impressions confirmed, found further that Composer Wolfgang Amadeus and his shrewd, harried Father Leopold Mozart were penetrating and sometimes irreverent observers of the manners of their time...