Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three hundred-odd Wellesley seniors will sprint for a husband Monday morning, in the Waban wenches' annual hoop race. The winner of the race--down Wellesley's Severance Hill--traditionally picks up a wreath and the class's first husband...
...them should be sent to the Federal Correctional Institution in Danbury, Conn., they would step into as odd a situation as any they ever conceived for a movie plot. One of the inmates at Danbury is New Jersey's pudgy, broken ex-Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, who is behind bars for padding his congressional payroll and pocketing the proceeds. It was he who presided over the committee that cited the Hollywood ten for contempt...
...same time he was working on the back-breaking job of revising the voluminous 19th Century Köchel catalogue which attempted to date Mozart's 600-odd works. He examined hundreds of Mozart scores and letters, discovered some 20 new Mozart compositions in the process, proved an additional dozen spurious. For this and his book, Mozart: His Character, His Work, he is now rated, with French Musicologist Georges de Saint-Foix, as one of the two foremost Mozart authorities in the world...
...written her 5,500-word, six-installment mystery in dressing rooms and train compartments while on tour last fall. Unlike her heroine, Soprano Traubel had to drug nobody to get her story before the public. The Associated Press heard about it, snapped it up for distribution to the 200-odd papers which regularly use its serial-story service...
First scent of the bovine enterprise was whiffed by Princeton men, and simultaneously by the staff of the Daily Princetonian. Proof that "Prince" staffers have a nose for news came when 30-odd barns were discovered not far from the Princeton campus, wherein the manure is mixed, heated, steamed, pulverized, and blasted...