Word: oddness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...tailors were peering into their darkest shelves because of a shortage of cashmere for striped trousering. On all sides would-be wedding guests were maneuvering for one of the precious invitations being addressed by a corps of Palace secretaries. Palace authorities refused to name the 2,000-odd included on the list. A few omissions were known: Elizabeth's uncle, the Duke of Windsor, and his Duchess, for instance, and Philip's three sisters, whose princeling husbands were all good Germans throughout...
...Budd drifted back to obscurity on small stations (from Asbury Park to Miami) and to odd jobs (from taxi driving to soda jerking). Last week he turned up in Buffalo, where he started, to audition...
...Possibly, she became a little odd as people are apt to when they are poor and live too much alone," one of her friends confessed in a monograph for the show. "This was especially true during her last years in Rome, where she did . . . one very remarkable portrait of herself." Said one Providence critic after studying the portrait last week: "It is the face of a woman who, looking in a mirror, sees Death...
Caldwell's point is that Molly never did have a chance. She was a sharecropper's daughter and early seduced, went from bed to worse until she set up in business for herself in Agricola. When she married Putt Bowser, the town's aging odd-job man, she settled down to housekeeping and running down a husband for Lily, her 16-year-old illegitimate daughter. Then Putt had to go and get himself killed. Said Molly, the day of the funeral: "Maybe it wasn't his fault, but I ought to have had the sense...
...begins to feel tired, depressed, out of sorts and washed-out, the trouble is not necessarily in his job or a decline in his mental powers, according to the Montreal experts. The trouble is in his hormone production. In the current Psychiatric Quarterly, Prados & Ruddick describe some of the odd symptoms of the male change of life...