Word: distinctive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vittorio Emanuele's train by its stiff-necked, arrogantly bourgeois builder, Tycoon Giovanni Agnelli, Senator of the Realm and President of FIAT (Italian Automotive Works of Turin). Inconspicuous on each coach is the symbol RIC ("workable over all European railway lines"). This means three separate braking systems, two distinct electric lighting systems and alarms so ingeniously concealed and blended with the palace decor that a stranger would be quite unable to discover how to stop the palace-train in an emergency...
...Sumner's clientele is rather unique, in that it is composed of three distinct groups "the so-called common people, the professors and the Brattle Street element, and the undergraduates, not to mention the youthful audience at Saturday morning's Mickey Mouse Matinees...
...over the Alps, cheered Italians by arriving in their midst with Nazi exhortations chalked on the freight cars in German and Italian: "Resist! Resist! Resist!'' At Berlin the neutrality policy of the Realmleader was said by his aides to be approximately that of President Roosevelt and absolutely distinct from the League of Nations. Since she is rearming herself as rapidly as possible, Germany has no arms to sell to others; but coal, pig iron, steel, basic war materials of which she has a surplus, she will continue to seil to whoever will buy. Last week Adolf Hitler...
...Chancelleries of Europe diplomats began to speak last week of the Italo-Ethiopian Question and the Italo-British Question as distinct and thus capable of separate solutions. Helping this along with a flat assertion, undoubtedly premature, highest Paris diplomatic sources said off the record that in Rome last week the Italo-British Question was solved by Benito Mussolini and Sir Eric Drummond, although the Dictator and the Ambassador obviously could divulge nothing until after Britain's general election this week. In neither Rome nor London could the slightest confirmation be obtained, though in Mayfair some swank wits opined...
...handed a burlesque role. On the strength of several letters she had had printed in the Chicago Tribune, she got a job there, held it a week. In 1890 she went to San Francisco, was hired by the Examiner. She had a theory that "a woman has a distinct advantage over a man in reporting if she has sense. . . . Men always are good to women." One of the first things she did was to pretend to faint on the street. Taken to a hospital in a hearse, she investigated the emergency ward from the inside, wrote an expose which caused...