Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odd Man Out (Two Cities; Universal-International), a rare attempt to use the screen for poetic tragedy, is the story of the last eight hours in the life of an Irish revolutionist named Johnny McQueen (James Mason). Robbing a Belfast factory for party funds, Johnny unwittingly kills a man and is himself gravely wounded. In confusion and terror, his comrades abandon him. By nightfall one of the most extensive man hunts in movie history is in full swing. So is an elaborate screen allegory...
After his two years here in Leverett House, Seeger spent three years bicycling and hitch-hiking up and down the east coast doing odd jobs and singing at small parties and meetings. In 1939 he met Woody Guthrie, who led him on a western tour that covered 45 states and on which Seeger says he "learned to sing in saloons for the first time...
...there are few other similarities between Dr. du Noüy's private religion and that of Christians. As is common among God-seeking scientists, the Deity becomes a Hypothesis with an odd name (in this case: telefinality). Christ seems to be a man born ahead of his time and Salvation is the evolution of the human species into a superrace. Scientist du Noüy regards the second chapter of Genesis as an esoteric presentation of his own view of creation...
Died. Dr. Douglas Sladen, 91, globetrotting journalist, professor, jack of many literary trades, founder of the modern British (1897) Who's Who, which he edited for three years (he is represented in the 1946 edition with a fat 66 lines, mostly listing his 50-odd books); in Hove, England...
...late Thomas Alva Edison, hopeful of long-hidden scientific wonders, watched his son Charles open the inventor's old rolltop desk (it had been closed to the public since Edison's death in 1931). Inside, besides masses of notes crammed into pigeonholes; a clutter of zoo-odd vials and miscellaneous containers, a piece of vulcanized rubber, scraps of tinfoil, scraps of old cigars, packets of seeds, two biographies of Edison, a collection of smoking-room stories, a bottle of soda mints, a partly used bottle of mouthwash, a plug of chewing tobacco...