Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives, paltry Eunuchs . . . and trills of insignificant, outlandish vowels...
...Stout comes of pioneering stock. Boldest invention of the American Revolution was his ancestor David Bushnell's tiny submarine that resembled two tortoise shells glued together, was dubbed "Bushnell's Turtle" (see p. 33). In 1919 U. S. airmen were shaking their heads over a contraption as outlandish as "Bushnell's Turtle," a fat monoplane that was mostly wing. To their surprise the "Batwing" not only established a new construction principle (internally braced wings), but became the first U. S. commercial monoplane. Thenceforth Inventor Stout, unlike his frustrated ancestor, found backers for other queer-sounding projects...
...Toad" (Boston or Bust). Does the Miscellany editor have a pending file that will remind him to find out whether Teddy actually gets home again in April 1941? (Such a smart toad might reason that he is better off in California-his master would just take him to some outlandish place again.) Please. R. T. GRIFFITH Pittsburgh...
...With the United States, Life Class) which rank with the most engaging of reminiscences. But Bemelmans is still a Katzenjammer kid. His fame, in fact, rests largely on the fact that he never outgrew his Katzenjammerism; it gives his drawings and prose a special quality of naive sophistication, outlandish imagination, impulsiveness, sly satire...
...photographer took their picture were admonished by their leader that "propaganda comes before all." The Hungarian Life Party members, supporters of the Government, came dressed in all black uniforms. Sole mufti-clad deputy was outspoken Foreign Minister Count Stephen Csaky, who thinks the Government Party's funereal garb "outlandish...