Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...true friend of President Roosevelt and the New Deal. In spite of his parole profligacy and the fact that his State is one of the five in which the Federal Government administers its own work relief, Governor Eugene Talmadge apparently swore the most convincingly. He might wear outlandish cowboy clothes in public and his wife might hang the family wash in the front yard of the executive mansion, but the back-country farmers trooped to the polls to renominate him in a primary that was tantamount to election...
...Bill Sikes is expelled for torturing young Carmichael who achieves top place in the form. Bill Sikes has nothing against young Carmichael. He is only annoyed to find his own name in last place. Skinnymalink Jamieson, father of "Slug" Jamieson, makes the commencement speech in an outlandish Scots dialect while the ashamed "Slug" betrays him in the hope of ingratiating himself with his scornful fellows. Out of the intellectual, moral and personal involvements of the masters and the equally complicated problems of the boys, Bruce Marshall has written a fresh, humorous and appealing story to be added to the long...
...more outlandish than everything else in the mountain-walled bowl of sand between China, Russia and India was Dr. Khalid Sheldrake, Moslem medical missionary to Moslems who started life as the son of a British pickle manufacturer. Last winter several tribal chiefs from Chinese Turkistan, where every tribe hates and fears every other tribe, called on Dr. Sheldrake in his Peiping hotel and invited him to be their overlord. The red-fezzed, toothbrush-mustached Briton accepted and announced that he was King of the entire Chinese province of Sinkiang, of some 3,000,000 Moslem, Buddhist, Confucianist, Taoist souls speaking...
Though world-travelers are now conducted in droves to many an outlandish spot. Tibet is not one of them. While it houses one of the most ancient of the world's extant civilizations, Tibet is so nearly inaccessible that it remains one of the least-visited places on the globe. A trip to Tibet is more in the nature of a conquest than a journey; Author Hedin well names this record of his perilous peregrinations...
Alfonso of Spain brought Victoria Eugenie, his British bride of 28 years ago, a full measure of woe. An anarchist's bomb nearly killed her on her wedding day. She was obliged to attend bullfights which she hated. She could not help thinking most Spaniards outlandish and sinister. Revolution chased her pell-mell out of Spain three years...