Word: odd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passed some of the most incongruous people in the world: Greenwich Village poets, workers from Chicago's Hull House, old-style Caribbean revolutionaries, retired burglars, Messianic booksellers, musicians from Wall Street, bearded atheists, Nicodemus-like lawyers, authors from Idaho, Junior Leaguers and Bryn Mawr graduates-all manner of odd types, irreconcilables, extravagants, visionaries and practical reformers who somehow were attracted by Founder Herbert Croly...
...special 1939 Armistice Day request: let all its 131,043 constituent and cooperating churches in the U. S. set their bells a-tolling at 11:02 a.m. Object: "A protest against war . . . a prayer for peace." As amen, the North American Guild of Carillonneurs promised that all 50-odd U. S. carillons would also tintinnabulate...
...column Nancy acknowledged the contribution, but added: "We cannot build the tower-it is too great an enterprise. What should I do with the dollar?" For answer, in her next day's mail she got more money. A contributor calling himself "Sunset Hunter" suggested penny banks to catch odd coins for the tower. Readers began to drop their pennies, nickels, dimes into old pitchers and broken cups to save them for Nancy...
...another, of what life is like in the centre of the Dust Bowl, on the borders of Manchuria and in any environment whose loneliness, distance or oddity few Atlantic readers were likely, in the flesh, to attain. It was therefore not surprising that the book to win, over 600-odd contenders, the Atlantic's $5,000 non-fiction contest for 1939, should be an account of what-life-has-been-like for the long, lean, lemon-tongued, ladylike U. S. wife of British H. G. Keith, Conservator of Forests and Director of Agriculture of North Borneo...
...clear conclusion to which this reviewer came was that Harvard's war is both more clear-cut in its aims and more vigorously conducted than the odd affair which is languishing on the Western front...