Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brazilian bigwigs and tourists up from Rio crowded against the walls. Around the grey-covered horseshoe table in front of the speaker's platform, delegates to the Rio Conference fidgeted restlessly in yellow leather chairs. It was cold in the vast hotel on the mountains at Petropolis, 40-odd miles north of Rio. Furthermore, the President of Brazil was late...
...Bird. But a thrush knew. "No sooner was the coffin grounded, than he was up on the brim of Edna's hat, his beak an inch from a purple cherry. . . ." For if Edna was odd, her hat was odder: the "goodness going up through her hair" had turned the trimmings to real flowers and fruit. The rest of the story reports how Edna earned her ?5 a week by exhibiting her unusual headgear in a publicity splurge that would have made Mother turn over in her grave. By the time she had been eclipsed by a woman...
...young men of his time took flight in coveys to the relative freedom of college life. In college, however, they found a juvenile competitive society exactly suited to put them back where they came from. Says he: "I can still shiver with humiliation over slights remembered for thirty-odd years, and warm at the memory of unforgettable mirth," or of his more rakish classmates with "their tiny straw hats with negligible brims, and voluminous white ducks under neat little coats whose tails scarcely cover [their] waistbands...
...have brought freedom from fear and want, men were as afraid of each other as ever, and most were in want. Endlessly branching plans for the world's regeneration were stiff with bureaucratic blight. To find postwar hopes alive with real sap, the world had to look in odd places-for instance, Hiroshima...
Between times, he skimmed over weekly reports on the dozen odd other properties he has bought since 1940. They include 25% to 100% interests in two music publishing companies, five movie theaters in Texas, a flying school and crop-dusting service, five ranches (including an Arizona tract of 175,000 acres), Gene Autry Radio Productions, Inc. (which handles his weekly program and guest appearances). Also in the Autry investment portfolio are Tucson's station KOPO, Phoenix's station KPHO, 10% of the Phoenix Gazette, a gas station and a grocery store in Oklahoma City. The bigger properties...