Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...People call up asking the oddest questions. Although this bureau is for general University information, we receive innumerable requests for data concerning every type of thing. Directions to do with Harvard are one of our most ordinary troubles...
...being alone; Nina Hopkins--played by Alice Brady--is entertaining a large and assorted group of gentlemen friends these evenings at the Plymouth. Perhaps it is her charm, or her very attractive gowns, or the way she inhales, but in any event other women's husbands have the oddest habit of walking in at all hours of the day and night. Being a lady, Nina tells them to go and go they do--only to return with orchids and dinner invitations. They prove delightful, if inconstant, playboys and when they depart Nina decides that life is a funny proposition...
...concert of Europe, the echoes of which are seldom soft and never silent, assembles again in one of its oddest arrangements. It always has multiple leadership at its meetings and a more or less definite discord among the leaders. People do not forget that the angry voices a decade ago shaped themselves into a great conflict. Since then the bickerings have been viewed with more or less sensitive alarm...
...oddest series of recitals for the U. S. next season will be that of Lionel Tertis. Mr. Tertis is an English musician of some note. His instrument is the viola. Few lay citizens know just what the viola is. It is a member of the viol family, lying midway between the violin and the violoncello. In appearance it is nothing more than a large violin, played in the customary position for the violin. Its tone is very distinctive, deeper, mellower and moodier than that of the violin. Its lack lies in variety. It does not have the alternate darkness...