Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very Modest." After more wrangling, Senator Brewster agreed to answer the 40-odd written questions which Hughes had brought along. Certainly, he knew Juan Trippe ("a very able man") and Pan Am's Vice President Sam Pryor ("a very close and gratifying friendship"). Yes, he had accepted a couple of Pan Am airplane rides-once when he was traveling on Senate business about the airline bill, once when he went down to Sam Pryor's "very modest bungalow-type house" at Florida's Kobe Sound, "in Senator Pepper's area." (Snorted Democrat Pepper, a committee member...
...didn't. Wary Democratic officeholders avoided Fresno last week as though it were a poison-ivy patch. Henry Wallace himself was too cagey to send greetings. Among the 300-odd delegates who did show up, Kenny whipped up enough enthusiasm to start Wallace organizations going in 16 of the state's 23 congressional districts. The organizations would probably collect enough signatures to land a Wallace delegation on the ballot...
...terrifying, huge numbers on the blackboard, tersely announcing that he had seven minutes left for the last three questions. Which ones should he have taken out of the possible five? He agreed with all the statements in quotes; they all sounded reasonable, and he had put down a few odd facts he had learned in some history course last fall...
...orchestral description of a locomotive getting under way. In his oratorio-like Le Roi David he perfected his own trick of plaiting two huge, serpentine strands of melody into a dissonant, sometimes arid, fabric of harmony. He went on to write some 60 works, including four symphonies, also twenty-odd French and English movie scores (Mayerling, Pygmalion), a medium which he prefers to opera...
When prize-day came, however, neither nation brought home a very hefty load of bacon. Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (Rank) was awarded honors as the best production job of 1946; but a U.S. picture was the only one to receive more than one award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze...