Word: odessa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cummings' journal of a visit to Russia fell flat. Written in a stream-of-consciousness style filled with puns, parodies and typographical innovations, it seemed on the surface a needlessly complicated work on a subject of no great difficulty-a trip from Paris to Moscow (and back by Odessa and Constantinople) on which nothing happened...
...months ago, a terrified young Negro woman, Mrs. Odessa Booker, found refuge in a farmhouse near Tampa, Fla., and told a story which is as old as the South. A 34-year-old white man named Irving F. Brown had called on her, asked her to come to his house as a baby sitter. Instead, he drove her to a lonely lane, beat and attempted to rape...
...When Odessa struck oil 15 years ago, West Texans yahooed with delight. Last week, when a man named Hoiles struck Odessa (pop. 40,000), few citizens knew whether to toss their Stetsons into the air or jump on them. Even by Texas standards, the newcomer looked as ruggedly individualistic as a steer on the loose...
Terrible-tempered Publisher Raymond Cyrus Hoiles, 69, who already owned six newspapers in five states,* bought the Odessa American, in partnership with 20 employees, for more than $200,000. Like the Chicago Tribune, whose editorials he reprints on days when his own spleen is small, Publisher Hoiles knows how to make people mad and make...
...Odessa hadn't caught up with bebop yet, but it already had too many low American habits to suit Pravda. "How can we get rid of swing and jitterbugging," Pravda demanded to know, "when . " . vulgar melodies [like] Pussycats, Crazy Girl and White Moth sound in the public places . . . pampering low-grade tastes . . . while folk and real ball dances are unavailable...