Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...some of the less enlightened intelligentsia of Harvard, the names Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and Pleran Sodality represent some weird organisations of "long-haired" students. Actually the Orchestra is composed of Music-loving, reasonably experienced players who enjoy grinding out symphonies at rehearsals every Tuesday and Thursday nights. For those who have been worried about the term "Pieran," the word refers to a place in Greece where the Muses met. Its members elected when they have served two terms in the Orchestra, the Pleran Sodality is the "inner circle" which handles the Orchestra's finances and arrangements...
Words & Deeds. The prelude to George Messersmith's Argentine mission is as long and weird as any chapter in U.S. foreign relations. In the cloistered halls of the U.S. State Department, the word "policy" has two meanings. To one group of men "policy" means something you say; to another it means something...
...year-old mother of four, Mrs. Janice Pollock was having some weird experiences. A manifestly shapely young woman (128 lbs., 5 ft. 6½; waist: 25½; bust: 34½; hips: 35) with handsome brown hair and eyes, she had journeyed from her home in Columbus, Ohio to Jackson, Miss. to compete in a beauty contest sponsored by a dressmaking company. In giddy succession, she had edged 19 other unusual wives out of the title of "Mrs. America," won a $2,500 prize and assorted "emoluments," and sat on a glittery throne. All she had to do in return...
...from). When guards and a chaplain rushed into his cell, he was dying. Meanwhile, near Nürnberg's old imperial Castle, a band of German children hung Göring in effigy. Then they burned the makeshift scaffold and silently marched around the fire, watching it scatter weird shadows among the rubble...
...Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy-colored canvas of four weird, grief-crazed creatures with a dead child...