Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York State Tax Department it was reported that the estate (once appraised at $1,757,572) of mysteriously murdered Gambler Arnold Rothstein is now insolvent. Added the tax report: "The assets of this estate were not marketable assets . . . but were peculiar, due to the odd business interests of the decedent...
...factory at Richmond, Ind. and an older plant in Cincinnati, on May 15 Crosley Corp. expects to start production with 200 cars a day, sell them through the 25,000-odd Crosley agencies, where they can be rolled in at most front doors, displayed on sales floors among radios and refrigerators. Markets which Crosley dealers will go for hardest: the man who cannot afford a new higher-priced car; the family with one standard car which could use a second for shopping, commuting, taking the children to school. But, as Willys has found, the market for cars that...
Title. The title of Finnegans Wake comes from an Irish music-hall ballad, telling how Tim Finnigan of Dublin's Sackville Street, a hod carrier and "an Irish gentleman very odd" who loved his liquor, fell from his ladder one morning and broke his skull. His friends, thinking him dead, assembled for a wake, began to fight, weep, dance...
...with executive ability, personality, contacts and nerve; someone who had taken no part in the bitter internal strife that preceded reorganization of the Exchange (TIME, Oct. 17); someone who, with all these qualities, could be hired for $25,000 a year. While painstakingly going through a list of 50-odd names, the committee sneaked away from Curb headquarters to meet in unpublicized seclusion, thereby got to be known as the "Silent Five." Last week the Silent Five agreed on George Peters Rea and even cynics cheered...
...water-color medium. There are so many high-points of artistic value, so many outstanding examples of potential greatness, that it is neither just nor adequate to compress the exhibit within the rather arbitrary bounds of a brief review. However, one aspect of the collection which is surprisingly odd, yet quite pleasing is the fact that some of the better-known artists, Benson, Macknight, Homer, and even Sargent, lose the lustre of their fame when their paintings are compared with those of certain younger, more obscure...