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Word: oddly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...into the great enclosure something seemed to have happened. The line up was being announced and nobody more than twenty yards or so away could hear a single word. The trouble was discovered; the acoustics of the box had been ruined by the addition of two hundred and fifty odd human beings. A hurry call was sent out and megaphones produced in quantity in time to save the day for the public...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lining Them Up | 10/24/1929 | See Source »

First Game. People who had figured that 35-year-old Spitballer Howard Ehmke would work in the series only if every other Philadelphia pitcher was sick or knocked out of the box, did not reckon on an odd understanding between Ehmke and Manager Connie Mack. Before the regular season ended Manager Mack sent Ehmke to scout the Cubs. He told a friend in confidence that though Ehmke had needed relief in each of the only two games he won for the Athletics this year, he would let him start if Ehmke said he wanted to. "He has one good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: World Series | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

Disraeli (Warner). The efforts of a Jewish prime minister of England in 1875 to buy a public utility for his kingdom have been made into a picture as exciting as a detective story. This is odd but it is odder still that, although Louis Parker's old play is no more than effective theatrical plum pudding, it should seem at times almost literary. Both of these facts are principally due to George Arliss, who has played Disraeli so often on the stage that if set back 60 years he could probably double for him in the House of Commons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...well as the products so that in 1927 she was able to sell Liberty a story called "What's the Matter with American Men?" which lauded foreign bachelors. Her career also includes going to night clubs, attending Broadway openings, working for Saks Fifth Avenue, Manhattan smartmart and such odd jobs as chaperoning Aviatrix Ruth Elder, to whom she introduced her curious and well-bred friends. Sad though her story might be to a gum-chewing public, Miss Oelrichs has declared that she enjoys her life, including the moneymaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Liberty Liberties? | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

...that Pilsudski was in power there, this place had become to the pianist, far more than his property at Nyon or his ranches in California, important as the background of his comfort. With the effort of his concert tour still a few weeks away, it must have seemed odd to him to find his easy reflection interrupted by a sharp and growing discomfort in his side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chalet de Riond Bosson | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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