Word: followance
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three-pounder is not noise but music to His seagoing Majesty. That night the British Fleet was "lit up like a Portuguese Carnival"-as an admiring Portuguese diplomat remarked- but next day the King's delighted subjects were left behind, the floating grandstands were signaled not to follow, and His Majesty led the fleet to sea in war formation, flying from his yacht a signal meaning "THE ENEMY IS IN SIGHT." No enemy was ever sighted, but the big guns pounded away at H. M. S. Centurion, a target ship controlled by radio. Of 320 "dead" shells fired...
...oftentimes making thoughtless remarks and generally taking away from the solemness of the interment. "The Police Department are in favor of this movement on account of traffic conditions. Funeral corteges on Sunday are many times as long as on weekdays, for many mourners who have nothing else to do follow to the cemetery...
...palace was attributed by Rumanians to the fact that businesslike Mme Lupescu will sell anything at a fair price. At the close of last week's parley. Foreign Minister Nicholas Titulescu of Rumania announced with dignity and menace: "Mobilization of the Little Entente's armed forces will follow as a matter of course if the [Habsburg] dynasty is re-established in Vienna...
...parents staked him to three years of study in Leyden and in Amsterdam. Then at 18 he went to work on his own. By the time he was 25 he had made a brilliant reputation, which he proceeded to follow to Amsterdam, then one of Europe's greatest trading cities. There he stayed for the rest of his life...
...advanced ethnology, laymen are likely to find his conclusions too cautious, may be irritated by the qualifications and exceptions he notes to the general patterns of Crow behavior. That even primitive society was complex, dense, marked with restrictions and taboos, is plain from The Crow Indians, and readers who follow Ethnologist Lowie's account of his difficulties with native language and customs are likely to be made permanently skeptical of most popular accounts of life among the Indians. Where more superficial observers, for example, might be content to list Crow customs on the warpath, Ethnologist Lowie traces down...