Word: freak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Throughout the week Mr. Meighen and all but one* of the 116 Conservatives loudly called attention to the fact that, as the result of Canada's recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), Premier King can muster only 101 Liberals, thus leaving the Government, theoretically, without a majority. The Liberals, on the other hand, put on a bold and blustering front, intended to give the impression that they were sure of being supported by the 27 minority party members: 24 Progressives, 2 Laborites, and 1 Independent, that fire-eating gaffer, the Hon. Henri Bourassa of Quebec, now again returned to Parliament...
...Canadian Parliament assembled last week at Ottawa, on Capitol Hill, amid highly extraordinary circumstances arising out of the recent "freak election" (TIME, Nov. 9), which gave the two major parties (Conservative and Liberal) an almost equal number of seats in the Canadian House of Commons...
...discussion, and attracted high praise and severe condemnation. Werner's "Brigham Young" treats in a light but serious manner the extraordinary story of Mormonism and one of the most extraordinary figures in American history. John Marquand has written an entertaining but slightly padded account of "Lord Timothy Dexter," the freak of Newburyport, and Isaac Goldberg an interesting and elaborate life of "The Man Mencken." Earl Grey's "Memoirs" relate, among other things, what he is willing to tell of the British foreign relations at the outbreak of the War. Dr. Harvey Cushing has written an exhaustive and pleasant life...
...your issue of Oct. 5 on p. 30, you call Miss Ruth Gillette a "freak" because she flies a racing airplane. Think of what would happen to humanity if all women spent their time flying racing airplanes. I suppose that is what you want...
Because of the impaired coordination of their nerves under pressure, the liability of their hearts to variation, and their general inclination toward giddiness, women seldom function as airplane pilots. Occasionally, in flying circus outfits, women have capitalized the fact that their sex is, in the air, a freak, and accepted large sums of money to perform comparatively safe flights. But never in the history of aeronautics, until last week, had a woman publicly announced that she would fly a speed plane in a great race. Miss Ruth Gillette of Los Angeles entered her Sikorsky Messenger...