Word: weirdly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over-Brooklyn to Jersey City to Macon to Little Rock to Chicago to Albany to Los Angeles to St. Louis to Washington to Boston to St. Louis to Detroit to Washington to Brooklyn again. They all knew him as a Man Of Purpose, though the purpose is usually weird; as the game's biggest present-day outsize ego, though he delivers the goods every so often with the crushing simplicity of an anti-tank gun; and as a man dying to stand the rest of the National League on its head-which is what Brooklyn needs...
...actors have a gay time for themselves, without paying too much attention to anyone else. "Ten Nights in a Barroom" has Mary Barthelmess droning "Father, Dear Father, Come Home With Me Now"; it has Robert Perry hopping around like an 1890 model of Danny Kaye; and it has a weird conglomeration of characters and specialty acts. These vary widely in appeal, but they have one thing in common: everybody behind the footlights has a whale of a good time out of them. The audience isn't quite so lucky...
Nancy Duncan turns in another of her excellent performances as Mrs. Garnet, the eccentric landlady who is never quite sure when her weird tenants are acting and when they're being themselves. For that matter, no one else is too sure about it either, which probably accounts for the good time the actors seem to be having playing their parts...
Most people in the U.S. were hardly aware of an Asian event which Itagaki and the Japanese army never forget. That event was the weird (to Occidental minds) and semicomic Japanese invasion of Russian territory in 1918. The Japs chose an opportune moment, when Red Russia was weak aborning, to endeavor a second time to drive the Russian bear out of the Far East. They wanted, and seized, Russia's northern half of the island of Sakhalin, the half rich in coal and oil, and added it to their southern half. In the guise of Allied intervention, they seized...
Five years on a Birmingham newspaper left Garth with a weird jumble of contemporary catchwords. For a while he was a New Dealer himself. He dallied with the Birmingham Reds (especially with Millionaire Comrade Adeline Reed, who had revolutionary and biological fervor. He turned against them after watching their tactics in a steel strike...