Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secret Ears. The loudness of McDonald's boasts has set his competitors' teeth on edge. The100-odd makers of U.S. hearing aids are well aware that their market is potentially rich. An estimated 3,000,000 Americans are deaf enough to use hearing aids. But only 800,000 do. One reason is the price. Most units sell for between $100 and $200 and cost the user about $75 to $100 a year for batteries. Another reason is vanity. The hard of hearing hate to admit...
Keynoter Jean Hersholt rose to announce that "We are sentimental people. . . ." But the 6,000-odd movie colonists assembled in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium gave only one sign of out-&-out sentiment during the whole evening. That was a cheery huzzah for cheery Edmund Gwenn, who won an Oscar as the best supporting actor for his very human, slightly balmy Santa Claus in Miracle on 34th Street. Celeste Holm was named the best supporting actress for her acid other-womanizing in Gentleman's Agreement...
...associations, professional organizations, and conventions, the club cars on trains, the numberless opportunities and facilities given for casual conversation, the radio piped into every hotel bedroom, into many railway cars and automobiles, left on incessantly in the house.... Americans, psychiatrists as well as laymen, consider that there is something odd, something suspect, in a young person who deliberately eschews company and chooses privacy or loneliness...
...atmosphere of Italy," wrote Anne Elizabeth O'Hare McCormick, "is like that of a warm day with an undercurrent of icy wind. . . . It is an odd combination of hopeful reconstruction and fearful suspense. Nowhere has the Communist victory in Czechoslovakia caused such reactions of glee among Communists and gloom among anti-Communists...
...hasty coalition of Laborites and Tories rushed to defend the wigs. Conservative Edward Percy Smith said: "Without their official wigs and gowns, [judges] look very odd and ordinary." Laborite Hector Hughes agreed: "I believe," he said, "Mr. Emrys Hughes is seeking to reduce people to dull sartorial drabness...