Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...document had the odd quality of pleasing just about everyone on the Western side. Paris' leftist Combat nicknamed it "La Note Dior," because it was short and had style. Le Monde applauded the absence of "polemics, which give the Soviets the nourishment they need for their propaganda." In Germany, giving his approval, Konrad Adenauer said that it was he who suggested writing the note. And, though it was nicely timed to give Adenauer a last-minute boost for the Western German elections (see below), Adenauer's political enemies, the German Socialists, said they liked...
...party guests, who had been carefully screened by attendants assigned to bar gatecrashers, filed in. Biarritz' Chiberta Country Club was in ornate fancy dress for the occasion, made up in false front by New York decorator Valerian Rybar to look like an iSth century chateau. The 2,000-odd guests, including some 50 princes, 20 dukes, 95 counts, 35 marquesses and one sad and shopworn King (Peter of Yugoslavia), were all supposed to dress in the same (circa 1750) style, but many seemed as vague about their century as they did about their host, Ballet Impresario George de Cuevas...
...left home last week, but the marquis' ballet dancers were on hand to entertain his guests with a performance of Swan Lake. For a while real swans were considered, but the marquis felt they might fly away inopportunely. To make sure nothing else flew away, he had 200-odd private policemen on hand to watch his guests and their estimated $9,000,000 worth of jewels. The cops were impeccably clad as 18th century plainclothesmen, but not all the guests were so socially correct. Washington Socialite Gwendolyn Cafritz burst in, looking very modern, with an apology: "I had Schiaparelli...
...partnership dissolved after V-J day, the United Church of Christ in the Philippines was formed again on a more solid footing in 1948, is now the largest purely Protestant body in the country. Its constituents: Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Church of Christ, Evangelical United Brethren and Philippine Methodists - 100,000-odd adults in 790-odd congregations...
...testing the 30-odd ingredients of a perfume such as Chanel No. 5, not all the smells that waft up to the Great Nose are pleasant. To "fix" the perfume by uniting other ingredients, perfumers use such sour or fetid-smelling substances as musk, castoreum (made from beavers' testicles), ambergris (a secretion in the sperm whale intestine), and civet glands. Explains Beaux: "Pepper and salt don't taste pleasantly when taken alone, but they enhance the taste of a dish." Beaux gives each essence the nose test because some scents will last after a week of exposure, while...