Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...erroneously stated (TIME, March 18), art editor of Life, weekly funny magazine. Cartoonist Crosby is not, has never been, a staff member of Life. Last week Life announced the appointment of Oscar Odd ("O. O.") Mclntyre, popular syndicate columnist (New York Day by Day), as dramatic critic. He succeeds famed Funster Robert C. Benchley, who leaves, after nine years, to devote himself to the talking cinema. Said departing Critic Benchley: "Any change would be for the better...
...this aspect of the corporative state is kept in mind, it will help to avoid overestimating the eight million odd votes cast for the candidates of the Fashist 'party...
...Supreme Court is asked to interpret the words "by their adjournment." The pocket veto is indisputably valid when Congress, by final adjournment, expires on March 4 of odd years...
...Coffroth Handicap climaxes 100 days of racing, attracting horses from famed Eastern and Southern stables, but odd things happen to horses, and many prime jockies do not ride there. Touts peddling tips are numerous and all offer the gambling tourist a sure thing on every race. Yet even touts in their surpassing wisdom disappear mysteriously toward the paddock between races to find "which ones are trying...
...Indians that "only the final adjournment of the Congress prevents the return (and reconsideration) of a vetoed bill." That is to say, "adjournment" in the above clause means only adjournment by reason of the expiration of the mandate of the Congress, which occurs on March 4 in the odd-numbered years...