Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sharp rise in future contracts for cotton has greatly stimulated speculative interest throughout the South. The result has been that unscrupulous individuals in Manhattan have organized "odd-lot" cotton exchanges in order to bucket the orders of small customers. Many of the latter live at considerable distances from New York City, and are through inexperience unable to distinguish between the primary cotton market on the New York Cotton Exchange, and the mushroom imitations of it which crooks are so frequently ready to establish during a cotton boom. Officers of both the New York and New Orleans cotton exchanges are cooperating...
...from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only in fiction, while today such a staid and sober journal as the "New York Times" prints with great solemnity Mr. Schermann's revelations as to the mysterious "Marjorie...
Jack London knew odd corners of America?but the America he knew has already altered. And the others who have tried of recent years have used the slick technique of the magazines or dropped into easy burlesque. The epic remains to be written?and it will not be an epic of easy circumstances. Too many of our moderns of promise are already cursed with ease?seeming tied to the same narrow slice of life where every one is more or less of a gentleman. True, the soil is coming into its own somewhat?and the men of the soil?...
...scholarship, and which he found as vapid as Janet, on the whole, found her college. Adventures with girls, an attempt at treading the primrose path (abandoned when he discovered those well advertised flowers a little too stale for enjoyment), a search for the beauty and truth of life in odd exploits that led, apparently, nowhere; Sally the beautiful, and their engagement, broken, mended, broken; Sally, the unlucky, crushed pitilessly by circumstance she was not steely enough to defy; meeting Janet, at that time a child, and, from the contact of her fearlessness, making himself some sort of talisman against...
...Author. Floyd Dell was born in Barry, Ill., in 1887. He has worked in factories, on farms, at odd jobs ? written poems, a number of one-act plays, essays on feminism, a book on education ? been literary editor of the Chicago Evening Post, editor of The Masses and The Liberator, special writer for various New York newspapers. He is married and lives at Croton-on-Hudson, N. Y. Mr. Dell's previous novels are Moon-Calf (1920) and The Briary-Brush...