Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of the exchange: a spate of publicity for Walter Reuther and his odd theory that U.S. private enterprise should be limited by some kind of labor review and control. As Walter Reuther must have realized all along, neither the proposal nor the discussion made any real contribution to the critical struggle against inflation...
...they burn their mortgages, contribute heavily to charities and tend their investments,, lodge officials have bumped up against a discouraging fact of 1957: the old prestige and royal good fellowship just aren't there any more. Evidence: fewer than 15% of the nation's joiners, whether Odd Fellows. Shriners, Eagles or Woodmen, bother to show up for lodge meetings, except on rare special occasions, e.g., a New Year's Eve party. Explains a once-earnest, now-backsliding Chicago businessman-joiner (Masons, Maccabees, Woodmen of the World): "I know I should attend. But all of a sudden...
...holding its third assembly (the first in the U.S.), and before its ten-days' sessions were over, some 100,000 people were expected to join the 252 official delegates from 57 church bodies in 29 countries, representing more than two-thirds of the world's 70-odd million Lutherans...
Died. Clara Bell Walsh, 70-odd ("none of your business"), widow of St. Louis, Millionaire Julius S. Walsh Jr. (died 1922), lavish Manhattan hostess who had a suite in the Plaza Hotel for nearly 50 years, and whose intimate soirees of "200 or so" friends were the starting point of many a Broadway career; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...
...country's only considerable novelist since the death in 1946 of Henry Handel Richardson, has filled his most ambitious book to date ostensibly with the adventure story of an explorer. But beneath the surface, it is really a self-examining essay in which the continent's odd geography, zoology and climate serve as a metaphor for White's real theme-the uncharted journey into the dry, unblazed interior of the Australian mind. Landscape is the protagonist. It is said of one character: "His failures took shape, but in flowers and mountains." Another character speaks of "the grey...