Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everyday Sights. Pool buyers long ago learned that the first cost of a swimming pool is only a start; there is also a fat annual fee for maintenance. In Southern California, a lot of the upkeep goes to an Ilsley maintenance subsidiary which employs 60-odd workmen, grosses...
Janus the Owl. In Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...
Much of their work consists of regular deck-scrubbing, water-testing, leaf-skimming, and extracting dead rats and bobby pins from pools. In Beverly Hills, whose 700-odd pools occupy most of their time, the job is far from routine. After police had searched two days for Actor Joseph Cotten's car, reported stolen, Cotten found it and called Ilsley's men to retrieve it, from his pool. Another time, they fished a live deer out of Joan Fontaine's pool. Jack Benny, who had an octopus molded into the bottom of his tank for laughs, called...
...look upon the world," said Methodism founder John Wesley, "as my parish." If John Wesley had been in Springfield, Mass, last week, he would have been pleased to see how well his parish was represented. Assembled for the Seventh Ecumenical Methodist Conference were 500-odd delegates from 16 independent Methodist groups on five continents...
Wild Harvest (Paramount) revives the once profitable Quirt-Flagg* formula: two high-skilled bums carom around odd corners of the world, working at the same jobs, tomcatting after the same girls, fighting each other, and unable to do without each other. Wild Harvest adds something new to the formula: this time the heroes are migratory workers, involved in the robust job of wheat harvesting with combines. The harvesting job gives the audience something novel and vigorous to look at, and it also gives the players something better to do than talk and make faces at each other. But there...