Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After retirement from Union in 1938, Dr. Scott went right on teaching (last year at Amherst) and writing. Latest of his 20-odd books, Man & Society in the New Testament (Scribner; $2.75), just published, is the July selection of the Religious Book Club. In it he vigorously hammers home the text that Christ's teaching is no blueprint for the Good Society, but a religion for individuals...
There is an outside chance that the plot will work. Odder things have happened in odd and amiable San Francisco...
...games so far have been very informal and Leverett is the only House that has come out with a full team. All the other teams filled up their ranks with odd players from other Houses when they had a game to play. The initiation of regular baseball as well as softball has further divided the number of available players...
Added to the primary ingredients in the current opus are: Lauritz Melchior as a tubby (what else?), good-hearted-but-tending-to-be-grouchy-at-first baritone; long (vintage 1900) skirts; an opera rustled up by California technicians from odd bits of orchestral music by Lizst and Mendelssohn and sung patently in English; Peter Lawford as a timid male debutant who calls a girl "darling" because it turns out she can speak Greek; and many others of lesser note...
Examples of studio thoroughness: a dramatic academy, manned by five instructors, sweated to teach Smoky's cast of 40-odd horses how to register basic emotions for the camera (no tricks); the star's glossy black hide, which began to bleach in spots after several weeks on location in the Utah sun, had to be touched up periodically with walnut stain makeup...