Word: freakishness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rescue tour, worried aloud over the possibility of a "weather change" which might be turning the U. S. into a desert. "Of course," he declared, "it is premature to say that our weather has definitely changed, but if we have during the next seven years, weather as freakish as that which we have had during the last seven, it may well be that the people of the U. S. will call on the Federal Government in no unmistakable terms to aid them in making certain profound adjustments...
...Freakish as that play seemed, it nevertheless was not U. S. Football's curiosity-of-the-week. That distinction went to a mystification at the University of California at Los Angeles which was taking on the proportions of a national sports scandal...
Sophisticated observers regarded the venture as a freakish experiment, pooh-poohed the idea that a troupe could succeed without women to decorate it. But in less than two years Ted Shawn has made a success. With no capital, he took to the road when times were darkest. In 1933-34 he and his dancers visited 115 cities. This season's record was 125, with sufficient profit for the dancers to go this week to London where they have hired His Majesty's Theatre...
This odd locution would seem more startling were not the other characters in After Office Hours equally freakish in their mannerisms. The hero, Jim Branch (Clark Gable), is a managing editor who, for no apparent reason, wears a pencil in his derby. The villain (Harvey Stephens) is not only a playboy, adulterer, champion sculler and murderer, but also a candidate for Senator. Sharon Norwood's mother (Billie Burke) makes sandwiches at midnight and talks like a lunatic. To cinemaddicts familiar with the strange symbolism of the medium, these quaint absurdities immediately indicate that After Office Hours treats of high...
...Originally, rodeo events, like riding '"outlaw" horses and roping cattle, were tests of cowboys' ability to perform their chores. Spectacular frills arrived later. A Negro cowboy named Bill Pickett introduced steer-wrestling some 25 years ago, dared his confrères to copy it. In addition to freakish specialties like milking wild cows, last week's world series rodeo included also a mounted basketball game, in which a team of cowboys challenged all-comers; performances by stunt horses; a juvenile chariot race; singing of hillbilly songs rarely heard except by radio west of the Hudson River...