Word: odd
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week in the runoff, Lawyer Smith won his case by 20,000-odd votes.The eastern section of the state, where the Negro population centers but where comparatively few Negroes vote, switched almost solidly to Smith. Said Smith: "I believe I know the viewpoint of North Carolina...
Soapy & Foggy. Not many of those younger painters were represented in the Met's exhibition, though a bequest from the late great Photographer and Art Promoter Alfred Stieglitz helped bring the Met's collection up to date, and the museum had bought 50-odd paintings in two years to fill some of the remaining gaps. Among its selections were a soapy surfscape by Frederick Waugh, a dusty studio composition by Robert Brackman, and a foggy abstraction by Theodores Stamos. The conservative Met had clearly done its backbending best to give contemporary art a fair, inclusive showing...
...bound to confess that to some extent we are an odd body . . . for instance, what about the Dean of Canterbury? The toast is 'at home and overseas'-I never know which the Dean of Canterbury is, at home or overseas. Dare I say that when he is at home I wish he was overseas, and still more profoundly when he is overseas I wish he was at home...
...well as rules. For the young children there are parks and countless playgrounds. For the old folks (the 5-to 35-year-olds) there are baseball diamonds, handball courts, six huge 75-by-125-ft. swimming pools, plus 25-by-75-ft. kiddy pools, shopping centers and 60-odd fraternal clubs and veterans' organizations...
...friends and acquaintances, shy, scarecrow-thin John Peet was not easy to ken. At 34, he had gone through an odd succession of careers: enlisted man in Britain's crack Brigade of Guards, English teacher in Prague, private in the Spanish Civil War's International Brigade, policeman in Palestine, chief Berlin correspondent for Reuters news agency. Some people considered John Peet insecure, haunted and unhappy; others regarded him as witty, well-informed and likable. Allied officials in Berlin had privately marked him down as a Communist or at least a fellow traveler, who passed information to the East...