Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monsieur Ripois on Dollis Hill, stretching his arms to the spring sunshine in thanksgiving for his wellbeing, in vague supplication for something pure and fresh, possibly a new woman. Later, when he approached her, an erect, full-bosomed child-virgin, she did not see a little cad of 30-odd with a pale, muggy face, but remembered a man whose gesture had expressed the wonder she awaited in life. She made a dream of him, managed their whole affair in calm unquestioning ecstasy-quite the best affair he had ever had, thought Monsieur Ripois, until she told him they would...
...vote was 23,000-odd for Mrs. Rogers, and 9,000-odd for Mr. Foss...
...Lord, whom ye seek, shall come suddenly to his temple, said that sharp little prophet, Malachi. Had any seeker for the Lord pushed his way through the crowd of 8,000-odd witnesses and entered an uptown church in Manhattan, last week, he would have found refreshments in the basement and cinemas on the roof and a trick pony which told fortunes with stamping hoof and twitching ear-all for a small admission fee that the public gladly paid. Such were the festivities that followed, last week, the breaking of the ground for the $4,000,000 Broadway Temple, organized...
...minutes of this and that. For those who receive impressions more readily with the eye than the ear, acts have been designed. "The Rotisserie," in which four girls, trussed on enormous spits, baste in front of an electric fire; "The Promenade Walk at the Beach" which sends 50 odd and some beautiful bathing suits skipping behind the rotund personality of Miss Frances Williams; the "Palette" scene, in which the Hoffman girls emerge, one by one, from a paint box, disguised as pastel crayons; "Cellini's Dream," difficult to describe. All these are transcended by the most colossal exploitation...
Among the 60-odd patrons of 60-odd Roman churches who wear, throughout the world, the red and the rank of Cardinals of the Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, there are always some whose eminence is peculiarly conspicuous. The present generation dimly recollects Manning of England, vividly recalls Gibbons of Baltimore, still boasts Mercier of Belgium and him whose country is his church, Merry Cardinal...