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FOXY dogsleds Bert Lahr up to the 1890s Yukon, and from there on the evening is fool's gold, a bonanza of comic Lahrgesse...
Foxy transports Broadwayites to an antic, 1890s Yukon, where all the fool's gold is stashed in the pouches under Bert Lahr's eyes. When Lahr crosses those eyes, the showdown is eyeball-to-eyeball. When he rolls them deliriously around the socket rims, he looks like a pixilated squirrel who has forgotten where last summer's nuts are buried...
...traveled by Time Machine back to an earlier America. So many Filipinos tote pistols that nightclubs, restaurants, government buildings and even the Philippine Air Lines insist in true Western style that customers check their firearms at the entrance. Prosperous Filipino business men, like the U.S. robber barons of the 1890s, build ornate homes in Manila's luxurious suburb of Forbes Park, where special police with carbines guard the streets against tough intruders from the slums. Bandits roam the back country, and pirates aboard motor launches raid docks and fishing boats...
This full-dress regalia was first popularized in the 1890s by Prince Albert. It is dominated by a double-breasted frock coat but must also include a white pique shirt with a wing collar, a white pique waistcoat, black trousers with a satin stripe, black patent leather shoes, and a silk top hat. The hat may be stored neatly by collapsing it into a frisbee-like disk...
...discouraged foreign investment in Ireland, raised some of the world's highest tariff barriers to exclude British goods and protect new, highly inefficient domestic industry. The result of its belt tightening was a rising tide of emigrants that by 1956 reached 600,000, highest since the 1890s...