Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...odd fit: Big Bill is 5 ft. 8½ in. tall, weighs about...
...Leaves & the Roots. The following Sunday, from the 400-odd pulpits of the archdiocese of Seville, a pastoral letter was read, denouncing this "imprudent priest" and forbidding parishioners to listen to Father Marcos or discuss his broadcasts. Then Cardinal Segura instructed all his priests to deny absolution to any penitent who refused to pledge himself not to listen to the broadcasts...
...priests recently outlined Farm Street's function as "presenting the Catholic religion in modern terms to the intelligentsia of the day and answering any attacks made upon Catholics.'' Immaculate Conception is no parish church; it contains no baptismal font and performs no marriages. Instead, its 20-odd priests in residence handle a tough, three-part assignment: 1) administering (under Father Desmond Boyle) the 903 members of the Jesuit Order in England, Scotland, Wales, Rhodesia and British Guiana, 2) publishing (under Father Philip Caraman) a highbrow monthly called The Month and extending the ministry to the literate with...
Last week, in Paris' Musée de la Marine, De Joinville's watercolors of the U.S. Civil War were on public view for the first time. The property of his great-grandnephew, the Count of Paris, the paintings were being exhibited, in an odd reconciliation of historical opposites, under the joint sponsorship of the count-the Bourbon-Orléans pretender-and the retiring President of the Republic, Vincent Auriol. Among the 60 neatly drawn and pleasantly colored watercolors of military life in the U.S. were Fording the River at Bull Run, a sylvan scene...
...odd thing about all this folderol is that it may prove very popular. The huge CinemaScope screen floods the moviegoer with so much wonderful Florida sunshine that he is apt to sit back, happy as a grapefruit, and soak it up-ignoring the silly background babble of all those Hollywood tourists...