Word: oddly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blew his trumpets last week for Cooper of Kentucky, Rizley of Oklahoma, Ball of Minnesota. On previous occasions he has electioneered for Pat Hurley in New Mexico, Curly Brooks in Illinois, Edward Robertson in Wyoming, George Wilson in Iowa. But he was in an odd and disconcerting predicament. As Columnist Walter Lippmann pointed out: "In most if not all of these uncertain states the Democratic candidates are not only more attractive to independent and progressive voters but are, on the great issues, much closer to Governor Dewey and more likely to support him ... In order to keep Senator Vandenberg...
...affair at the Trocadero theater made Uruguayans, including President Luis Batlle Berres, think again. Said the President in a ringing speech next day: "It is odd to think that there are Uruguayan citizens who would use force to impose their ideas on others. As citizen and President, I respect the beliefs of different men and different parties, but also as citizen and President, I say there must be respect for different opinions . . . This is not a challenge but a warning. If this is the first episode of a series, democratic government will meet it with the necessary force...
Johnny Belinda (Warner) is an odd, rather likable blend of believable back-country dramatics and old-fashioned melodramatics. It is set on Cape Breton Island, at the eastward tip of Nova Scotia. Its chief characters are a deaf-mute slavey named Belinda (Jane Wyman) and a kind-hearted young doctor (Lew Ayres...
...week old report, in which he vetoed the committee's major request that certain extra fees be abolished. The rebuttal states that fees for out-of-hours services must be kept as protection to the department. Their removal, Dr. Book argues, would encourage students to visit the department at odd hours...
First Things. At Narvik, Norway, when shipmates threw him a line after he fell overboard, Odd Evensen tied the rope to his brandy bottle, yelled: "Save this first...