Word: fawning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Though Her Majesty has been called "middle class," the fact is that the Royal House of Orange is on top of the Netherlands to a degree not achieved by royalty anywhere else. Rich men in other countries fawn socially on their sovereigns, never think of the Crown as an economic power. Dutch millionaires doubt if any of them is richer than their Queen. Her ancestor, William I, subscribed $1,600,000 to the original $14,900,000 capital of The Netherlands Trading Society for exploitation of his Indies. Few investments have ever been more fabulously profitable or more tightly held...
...might be expected, go about their business separately but their partnership still continues. The first time Gato sees Malibu he prepares to kill him, then recognizes his old crony and shares a drink with him. Both remain attached to Miss Parker. When his mate is killed, Malibu leaves their fawn with her to rear. The villain of Sequoia is a surly poacher named Bergman. When Bergman traps a herd of deer, Malibu shows them how to jump out of the corral. Bergman stalks Malibu and Gato stalks Bergman. Sequoia ends when Gato claws Bergman into a semicoma and Malibu butts...
Like Germany's Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Roscoe Turner is partial to fancy uniforms. Last week he wore a red-and-gold helmet, sky-blue tunic, fawn-colored breeches, Sam Browne belt, riding boots. From Burbank he reached Cleveland in a pouring rain, three minutes behind his 1933 time. The crowd cheered, sirens screamed, Col. Turner cursed. Eight minutes later he headed east again, "poured on the coal," streaked to New York at half the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet, covered the 418 mi. in 1 hr. 24 min., broke his own transcontinental record...
...domestic program. Most of last week, therefore, the Senate was kept busy talking about this pact with Canada. The substance of the debate was inferior to its manner. Most politely vociferous opponent of the treaty was Illinois' aging, asthmatic Senator James Hamilton Lewis, who wore a new fawn-colored waistcoat for the occasion of his oration...
...Several times they passed within a few feet of each other but Pilot Turner, clad in unaccustomed overalls, went unrecognized despite his famed spiked mustache. At the last moment he stripped away the overalls, revealed his habitual fancy costume of sky-blue tunic (with his initials embroidered in silver), fawn-colored breeches, Sam Browne belt, riding boots, visored cap with silver "T"-and was off. Beating the rising sun across the Alleghenies, Pilot Turner came down at Columbus for fuel and nearly lost his mind when it took him 20 minutes to rouse a field attendant. On & on he streaked...