Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Laddie (RKO). The best-selling novels of the late Gene Stratton-Porter have generated some of the most outlandish ballyhoo in the weird history of cinema promotion. To honor A Girl of the Limberlost, Indiana set aside 75 miles of State highway running by the Stratton-Porter home, from Geneva to Rome City, called it The Limberlost Trail. In 1925 when F. B. 0. produced Keeper of the Bees hundreds of schoolchildren were persuaded to plant Gene Stratton-Porter memorial trees. Last week's ballyhoo for Laddie was in the tradition of its predecessors...
Last week U. S. newspaper readers were offered three outlandish tidbits from three outlandish sources...
...tell you how this all is" they were abysmally mistaken. The sharp-featured, politically cunning ruler of between five and ten million savage and uncounted blacks is emphatically the suave cream in Africa's strong coffee. If the accustomed garb of Power of Trinity is particolored, gorgeous and outlandish, if His Majesty finds a real lion's mane appropriate headgear in his role of Conquering Lion of Judah, the reason is that he profoundly understands his people. But, in their private apartments, the Empress Menen takes dictation and pounds a typewriter, thereby assisting the Emperor to turn...
...mountain's 20 monastic communities live some 5,000 monks. That they may not be led into temptation, not only are women banned but also beardless boys (under 18) and female animals whose matings might "furnish an outlandish spectacle to souls which . . . are daily being purified." Spiritually preoccupied with an attainable Heaven, an avoidable Hell, the Athonites do not always succeed in resisting the prickings of the flesh. Investigator Choukas found overwhelming evidence for the stories he had heard about the perverted tastes of these black-bonneted men of God. Nor was he pleased to find that as regards...
...opposition to such outlandish art first took root in the Midwest. A small group of native painters began to offer direct representation in place of introspective abstractions. To them what could be seen in their own land?streets, fields, shipyards, factories and those who people such places?became more important than what could be felt about far off places. From Missouri, from Kansas, from Ohio, from Iowa, came men whose work was destined to turn the tide of artistic taste in the U. S. Of these earthy Midwesterners none represents the objectivity and purpose of their school more clearly than...