Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pale, eight-year-old Prince Philip of Greece was under no illusions. Paris in 1929 was full of exiled princes. Some drove taxis. Others were waiters. At his fashionable school in St. Cloud, Philip was always ready to take on odd jobs like waiting on tables. His mother had warned him that he might as well learn, because he too might end up as a waiter...
...What they were squawking about were the communications between Quitandinha and Rio. They were bad. Only six telephone lines run to Rio. Besides, the correspondents saw no chance of finding quarters in the hotel's 350 rooms. They would have to commute three miles to Petropolis or 40-odd miles...
...mentioned, in various uncomplimentary ways, the U.S. Government, the Department of Agriculture and the Mexican Government. But they saved their real whizbangs for a fellow dealer, Kansas City's Ferd Owen. When they had worked off their wrath, they got Texas' Representative Wingate Lucas to draft an odd bill for Congress. It would prohibit export of mules except by Government permit...
Exercising both the democratic system and the mid-Australian ballot, the so-odd girls at Cabot Hall last night voted to hold a jolly up for interested males this coming Saturday...
...Perkins has done many an odd chore. He has cleaned out elephant skulls and put them on exhibition, and removed the scent glands from skunks. In April, along with two Chicago newsmen, he hunted eels by flashlight in the open sewers of a southern Louisiana town. His wastebasket is the hollowed-out foot of an unmanageable elephant that was shot at the St. Louis...