Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prankster who waved a dry but dangerous-looking red paintbrush in women's faces was clouted with an umbrella, several handbags, and a high-heeled shoe. But the Legionnaires welcomed competition with disconcertingly uproarious laughter, went right on gulping from pint bottles, dropping water bags and emitting an odd war cry: "Hya, Queenie, Queenie, Queenie-best old dog you ever...
...affiliations with any groups or societies dating ten years back. Across the nation, in other Government offices, picked employees with similar forms and portable fingerprinting outfits began to bustle from desk to desk. The Government's 11 million, congressionally approved check on the loyalty of its two million-odd employees was officially...
Newsmen were not allowed to see him at the hospital. But he had previously been seized with an odd impulse to get something off his chest to a Negro editor named Leon Lewis. In June, he had summoned Lewis to his side. The man who had preached race hate with a venom seldom exceeded in U.S. history delivered a reluctant and rambling apology to his dark-skinned visitor...
...number of odd noises passed for entertainment. In Chicago, the Warblers-a troupe of 15 canaries, including a bass singer-were practicing trills and twitters in anticipation of a new Mutual show which will celebrate the canaries' 20th consecutive year on the air. In Portland, Ore., 250 sticky youngsters filled the air with gooey snaps and pops-and splattered the microphone-at the first broadcast of a bubble-gum contest...
...some small town. Last week, for example, Ball Brothers Co. (glass preserving jars) announced the opening of a $3,000,000 plant in El Monte, Calif., and the Electric Auto-Lite Co, (lighting, starting and ignition equipment) announced that it will soon start work on a $1,000,000-odd plant in Hazleton, Pa. Already completed in Cornelia, Ga. was the $1,000,000 plant of the Chicopee Mfg. Corp. (a textile-making subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson...