Word: weird
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when lighter, intermittent breezes swept in from the open Sound, it was agitated by a peculiar weaving, sinuous motion that its builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind howling and the bridge throbbing as if it were alive. Its eminent designer, Leon Moisseiff, 68-year-old builder of the Manhattan, the Triborough, the George Washington, many another mighty bridge, was unworried by its capriciousness. Builder Moisseiff, a refugee from the Tsar...
These successes heartened the Greeks, but it was hard to see how they could last. The long-range odds were too great. Reporting of the war was weird. Whether for reasons of propaganda or because of overanxious sympathy, Greek advantages were overstated. Successive Greek "victories," when traced on the map, sometimes turned out to be steady Italian advances. A mysterious bombing by Italian-type planes of Bitolj, Yugoslavia, which caused a stir of feeling and was followed by the resignation of the Yugoslavs' anti-Italian Defense Minister, General Milan Neditch, may have been a punishment for grotesquely pro-Greek...
This week Great Britain seemed to be more afraid of peace than war. London circulated a weird story: to convince the U. S. that Hitler had become a penitent, religious man, Father Odo had been sent to the U. S. by Clipper. Father Odo is Karl Alexander Maria Philipp Joseph Albrecht Gregor, His Royal Highness the Duke of Württemberg, whose father, Duke Albrecht, was a Field Marshal of World War I fame. Father Odo's mission was said to be to sell the U. S. on Hitler's plan for a united Christian Europe...
...fill out the bill, a variety of ten-minute side-kicks are shown. They include a nifty Donald Duck and some sad items on stunt-men and sealions. Also a weird pot-pourri on the history of the Academy Award, which gives tid-bits from the cinematic wows since '28. It doesn't seem to prove much, but it's interesting...
...incredible hats, fabulous costumes, he wanders about laying carpets for some of the loveliest musichorines in years, entangling himself with a pair of acrobats, conducting a lunatic dancing class, giving a weird exhibition of marksmanship with strange guns. Best of his current gadgets: a piano attached to a velocipede arrangement that enables him to pedal Jane Pickens, his diva, about to the rhythm of the jaunty air Catsup on the Moon. His giggle is infectious, his puns hilarious and he has the Dancing De Marcos to add pace to his show. But not even Wynn's enormous talent...