Word: oddest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While newsreel cameras chirred, 48 other prizes, mostly collars and harnesses, were awarded to owners of largest, smallest, shortest-haired, longest-haired, oddest dogs. There was only one disappointment: by an oversight the judges failed to honor, as advertised, the mutt with the most fleas...
...last week was not the fault of the Japanese Legation guard. Acting under somebody's orders, they paraded not only through the legation quarter but up & down the native city with fixed bayonets on their long rifles, tin hats on their little round heads, and machine guns in evidence. Oddest feature of the demonstration was that it was begun at midnight and continued until...
...That there must be a maggot of truth in both these candideries you will see after reading Frank Harris' Bernard Shaw. Death came for Frank Harris last August. He had corrected only the first proofs of his last book, leaving Shaw to make the final corrections: "quite the oddest job'' Shaw had ever had to do. For Bernard Shaw is neither an authorized nor an orthodox biography;† a lesser man than Shaw might well have considered it a personal attack. Shaw did his odd job, corrected some facts; but "all the criticisms, jibes, explosions of passing...
...shall preserve the petticoat." cackled the Mahatma. "It really is the oddest souvenir of my already large collection...