Word: tyrolean
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...vanished. The result of the long-awaited trial of German war criminals was: five Germans convicted of rape, four of cruelty to animals, five of reckless driving in congested areas. Countries ravaged by Hitler demanded the return of their looted property. They got it promptly: Austria received 198,371 Tyrolean hats, Russia got 16 Ukrainian ikons, France 1,835 empty champagne bottles and a heap of silk stockings full of runs...
...vast Wagnerian lore. With the proceeds of his 400-odd Metropolitan performances he has bought himself a home in Monroe, N.Y., where, with German methodicalness, he raises potatoes and experimental cherry bushes. For relaxation he climbs the surrounding hills with his tough-looking German boxer, hunts and fishes in Tyrolean knee breeches and a feathered...
Froelich was one of the handsome Austrian and German experts whom W. Averell Harriman had brought to Idaho to teach Sun Valley colonists how to ski. Mr. Harriman had imported yodeling German waiters and musicians too, but Froelich and the other Skimeisters, Tyrolean hats cocked on their heads, were the climatic touch. They whizzed around the towering cornices of the hills, swooped like eagles over the white slopes of the Sawtooth Mountains. The ladies loved them...
...idea was a colony of country cottages for sports lovers. H invited the best-bred families of New York up to see. On a gala opening day they arrived. They bucketed around in carriages, staring at gamekeepers who burst from the bushes in green and yellow costumes and Tyrolean hats. They cruised on the lake in barges manned by blue-coated crews. Delighted, they paid down hard cash for cottages...
Clad in a wide-checked overcoat and Tyrolean headgear, the boy that made "Harlem polo" famous over the air made a big hit with the remainder of the Smoker crowd that had lingered...