Word: outlandish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slapstick situations with a well-shaken mixture of low-class cunning and high-class ineptitude. Last week the re-run of an old Lucy was neither comic nor inventive. Lucy's idea of fun was to return repeatedly to a nightclub, got up in a series of outlandish disguises, and leave indignantly each time on being told that Desi no longer entertained there. This stratagem was supposed to convince the boss that Desi was so popular that he should be rehired at double his pay. The boss was convinced, but so was Desi: he refused the job, under...
Under the word method, if a child comes up against a new word, all he can do is guess-not at its pronunciation, but at its "looks." As a result, says Flesch, word-method pupils make outlandish errors, reading "said" for "jumped," "caps" instead of "houses." One youngster who had successfully recognized "children" on a word-recognition card was unable to read it on the printed page. How did he get it from the card? His simple answer: "By the smudge over in the corner...
...them professed to have long known that Lawrence was illegitimate, but based their objections on the propriety of saying so while his 93-year-old mother was still alive. Most of them also conceded that Lawrence was an incorrigible ham, who loved to posture and pose in his outlandish Arab regalia and often embroidered the truth. "Finding they wouldn't believe it," Lawrence himself once wrote a friend, "I told them lies." The ire of Aldington's critics was directed far less at the existence of sordid facts concerning their hero than at the brutal and relentless...
...where the Sun protested: "Down with Space Music . . . Give us a penny whistle." Sandwiched between Stravinsky's Firebird and Paul Creston's Symphony No. 3, the work actually was surprisingly gentle on the ears; by comparison, the unidentifiable flutings and reverberations from the machine sounded only slightly outlandish...
Even without Joslin, however, Princeton Coach Charley Caldwell must have considered the Crimson superior to his own team, for he resorted to outlandish single and double wing variations all afternoon. That varsity Coach Lloyd Jordan dressed a better squad was proved all the more by the coolness and competence with which it adjusted to and then stopped the unorthodox Tiger attack...