Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Silly or not, the Government vfas convinced that Collector Simons wa6 telling the truth-there was absolutely no evidence that he had acted on anything but an odd impulse. But for all that, he was arraigned and, until $10,000 bail was put up for him, was hustled off to jail...
...never been arrested before," he said, as officers went through his pockets before putting him in a cell. "All this is pretty amazing." When the U.S. marshal held up an odd-looking tool he had been carrying, he explained: "That's the handiest gadget. It opens bottle tops and cans and things." He beamed as the marshal answered: "We'd better keep this pocket-sized machine shop. It might open a jail door, too." Before he was led away he said, approvingly: "It certainly is good to know the federal agents . . . and security officers are really on their...
Matthew Neely is 75, a spouter of purple poetry and a wearer of tweed suits which come in shades of lemon and green. A veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a tireless joiner (Elk, Moose, Odd Fellow, Mason), Matt Neely is an ex-Congressman from West Virginia, served a term as governor of his state, is now in his fourth term as U.S. Senator. On the record, Senator Neely is a politician...
Last week Siena, his home town, celebrated the 401st anniversary of Il Sodoma's death with a full-dress retrospective exhibition drawn from France and Germany as well as Italy. Along with the 70-odd paintings and drawings on show was a batch of personal documents that proved him to have been the luxury product of a wide-open age; lazy, cynical, proud, humorous and wild...
Since then Roy Burkhardt and Joseph M. Evans have worked side by side toward a union of the 200 white churches of the National Council with the 100-odd colored churches of the Biennial Council of Community Churches. Last week, at a four-day convention in Lake Forest, Ill., the two clasped hands once again. As they did so, 350 black and white delegates broke into the hymn, Blessed Be the Tie That Binds. The union of the two national organizations was a fact...