Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From there ruddy, gregarious Max Gardner had moved on Washington. Because of his cotton interests (Cleveland Cloth Mills) and various directorships, he was able to lead the life of a prosperous lawyer. An early New Dealer, he attracted the favorable attention of Franklin Roosevelt, for whom he did odd jobs such as acting as special counsel to FCC. But he fought the court-packing plan...
...realize that it looks odd for a party that has less than 100 members in an Assembly that has more than 600 members to present a Government. But we had to put an end to a crisis . . . that threatened to become perilous...
Packed back to Caracas, the newsmen were told by amiable, bespectacled Provisional President Rómulo Betancourt that the revolt was over and that "all is O.K." in Venezuela. The 200-odd rebels who had captured the Maracay Airport gave up that afternoon. The lone plane crew that tried to bomb the Presidential Palace in Caracas had missed, and the scattering revolutionary outbursts in the interior found little popular support. President Betancourt had himself crimped rebel strategy: instead of going to Maracay for graduation exercises at Venezuela's West Point of the Air-and facing capture-he had wisely...
...such miscellaneous ingredients as plot and cast, the former is slight and the latter is slick. Full of such odd characters as a valet recruited from the Salvation Army who refers to himself as "we" and a typical Edward Everett Horton queer played by Edward Everett Horton, the picture supplies at least a token of filler between the main-event Rogers Astaire routines...
...young American favorites showed up short of wind, but still long-winded. The late Theodore Dreiser's last novel, The Bulwark, had the weight, but not the distinction, of a Percheron. Upton Sinclair's A World to Win did no more than mark another 600-odd pages in the improbable progress of Hero Lanny Budd. William Saroyan's The Adventures of Wesley Jackson presented a moist and flaccid soul behind a bold front. Pearl Buck's Pavilion of Women was not of great price...