Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rises at about 6:30 a. m. and rings for his personal servant, Cavaliere Malvestiti, whose surname by odd circumstance means "badly dressed." Old companions, they chat in Milanese dialect...
...Vienna telephone of Herr Richard Strauss, 62. famed eccentric composer, rang an odd hundred times last week, each time to shriek at him a message more bewildering than the last...
...Fourth Commandment (Belle Bennett). Honor Thy Father And Thy Mother, says the Good Book. The film records some of the complexities incidental to obedience in a hierarchy of several generations including odd lots of fathers, mothers, in-laws, relations, offspring. The tribulations evoke all the sweet fortitude of the white-haired mother so dear to U. S. sentiment. Belle Bennett is as maternal as advertised...
...drive will last until Thursday noon when the clothes will all be collected at the Brooks House and sorted. Anything and everything ranging from odd shoes to wornout suits is solicited. W. H. Medders '23 is in charge of the drive and can be found at the Phillips Brooks House during the morning...
...laws communicate through spiritualistic medium with his table-rapping soul. Every now and then, he skips out of the coffin to pound someone on the head, then jumps back in again. No one catches him. Antics drive the farce out of the ridiculous into the absurd. The odd things about it are: 1) It was written by Hatcher Hughes, who is a professor of Columbia University and the author of a Pulitzer prize play, Hell Bent fer Heaven; 2) The cast acted, directed, produced the piece, after the original sponsor had given it up as hopeless...