Word: fustianeer
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Before the hour expired, the Duce, who in his fustian prime had bellowed to his followers, "If I retreat, kill me!" was in headlong flight. At 9 p.m. he reached Como near the Swiss border. At 2 a.m. Thursday he sent an envoy to ask Swiss authorities to grant asylum to his wife, Donna Rachele, and their children. The Swiss emphatically declined. About 6 a.m. Mussolini sneaked northward presumably in the hope of reaching Germany. According to one report he joined a German truck convoy trying unsuccessfully to disguise himself in a German officer's overcoat. He was spotted...
...impervious sincerity Actress Cornell remains untouched by this fustian, makes Elizabeth Barrett not only a very appealing heroine but a conceivable human being...
...session. Then, perhaps, he had conferred with the King and Marshal Badoglio. One fact stood out: the Fascist Grand Council met the day before the resignation, its first meeting since Italy entered the war. Mussolini, the wily politician who had made just one big. but fatal, mistake in his fustian career, might hope that lip service to legality would pay him. One unkind rumor had him relinquishing his power on condition that his personal safety be assured. Another rumor had him and his chief party colleagues arrested while seeking escape to Germany, then put under house guard near Rome...
...First cannonading away at The Skin of Our Teeth's "borrowed" form, characters, plot elements, they followed up with scholarly small shot, including the charge that "the great swathing of scarfs and wrappings" of Wilder's Mr. Antrobus (see cut) looked like the "caoutchouc kepi and . .. blaufunx fustian and ironsides jackboots and Bhagafat gaiters and his rubberized inverness" of Joyce's H. C. Earwicker...
...filibustered. No Senator had deliberately delayed the debate. The talk had been good, the argument largely honest and toward the point. There had been a minimum of fustian, of rabble-rousing, only one moment of phony melodrama-when Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had displayed British-made toy lead soldiers, had asked the little Redcoats directly: "What are you doing here? What are you doing here?" (The toy soldiers kept a strict military silence...