Word: freak
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...directing a series of operations which were reported last week to have completely dislodged the Riffian artillery which has been desultorily peppering Tetuan from the hills throughout the winter. The citizens of Tetuan have grown thoroughly tired of this endless haphazard bombardment, though it was featured by several interesting "freak shots," such as the escape of an old woman unhurt when a shell destroyed the sewing machine at which she was seated...
During the recent "freak" Canadian election, that jovial Liberal, Premier William Lyon Mackenzie King, was astonished to find himself defeated for his own seat in the Canadian House of Commons (TIME, Nov. 9 et seq). He incurred the contemptuous nickname of "Seatless Mac" from his delighted Conservative enemies...
...personal attentions for him, hated the perpetual lapping up of his food "like a kitty," especially longed for shirts with sleeves instead of the sacklike garments slipped over his head. Then too a sideshow was tempting the Wiegman family with money for the boy's services as a "freak." He was ambitious, however; wanted to emulate the success of Michael Dowling, bank president of Olivet, Minn., who had lost both his legs and both his arms* at the age of 16, of Judge Corliss of Texas who lost both arms at the shoulders and then progressed to a county...
...Taylor doesn't like your "freak"and "stunt" expressions. Let me recommend to him a weekly for which I am an honorary subscriber: The Five Points (Pa.) Main Street Review. The present editor has preserved beyond reproach the style of his great-uncle, founder of the Review...
...Strange freak of nature, that those great holocaustic agencies that affect man most, should be so little understood by him while they exist. Mankind must forever await patiently the future which shall interpret the past in retrospect. The question, "Who began the war?" must remain for the present as impenetrable a mystery as its correlative...