Word: odd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...extracurricular issue when Representative Fred Bradley, from Michigan's smelt-fishing eleventh district, revived the prewar fish-gulping contest. The winner: Ohio's 250-lb. Representative Clarence Brown, who unseated Former Champion Jesse Wolcott of Michigan. His performance: a claimed total of 51 fried smelts (20-odd by newsmen's count...
Leaflets distributed to the 150-odd Red Cross members attending a luncheon yesterday noon at the Club 100 caused considerable discussion at the meeting, it was learned last night...
...Cross action was defended by General Chairman Freelon Morris on the grounds that there was not sufficient time to notify tht 150-odd members invited to the luncheon. It was learned, however, that the Red Cross board has been aware of the situation for over a week...
...less serious half of the concert, Eliot Carter's Tarantella; "Mater, Ades, Florum," precipitated a mass unrest in the graves of La Seala ghosts with its sometimes odd, other times uproarious parody of Latin opera. A tonor with a southern accent high-lighted the successful rendition of a somewhat redundant Gertrude Stein text set to Virgil Thomson music, and the Radcliffe group did nicely with Professor Ballantine's fine blending of music and words in Lake Werna's Water, a work dedicated to Professor Woodworth. A good performance of the Hindemith Choral Fugue ended the program...
Brigadoon (music by Frederick Loewe; book & lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is the name of a very odd Scottish village-one that long ago miraculously vanished, but reappears for a single day every hundred years. Just as the village comes to life one 1946 spring morning, a pair of young American hunters stumble spang upon its 18th Century market place-and the season's most engaging fantasy gets underway...