Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dissenters organized just once to give the High Table a keen, if short-lived, ribbing. The Low Table, started and ended on one evening in the thirties, was manned by some twenty-odd gentlemen resplendent in knickers, white tie, top hat, and white beard. The Lows sat just under the dais and taunted the Highs until, coerced, the Highs conceded and invited their bearded caricatures to dinner...
...live fish." This week, for the first time in 27 years, one of the major literary curiosities of modern times was reissued on the U.S. literary counter. Hadrian the Seventh might seem caviar to some, to others only a mess of purple eggs laid by a very odd fish indeed. To all, however, it offers one of the wildest sights ever flashed on the brainpan of a madman, a kind of interior cinema of a grand delusion. The author's life is a necessary prologue to the book-and its inevitable epilogue...
...From every nook in Germany they came. There were 119 generals and 40-odd colonels-much of what is left of the stiff-necked high command of Hitler's Wehrmacht. They met early this month in a smoke-filled beer hall in the U.S. zone city of Stuttgart; their host was a self-styled "aristocrat and man of the world": Ernst von Reichenau, brother of the Nazis' famed Field Marshal Walter von Reichenau...
...inherited it 15 years ago. Since then the count (Italy's Victor Emmanuel bestowed the title in 1917 for charities in Italy) has tripled the empire's possessions. His firm, Industrias Reunidas F. Matarazzo (I.R.F.M.), employs more than 30,000 workers in 367 plants (textiles, foodstuffs, 80-odd other miscellaneous products...
...alone last week in thinking so. Though the number of Israeli children attending the 30-odd Catholic and Protestant mission schools is still small, it is increasing. Last year there were 1,000; this year there are 1,500. Next year there will probably be even more from Israel's 300,000 youngsters...