Word: handlebars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eastwood, a lean, soldierly Yorkshireman of 53, who was elected last March after experience as a Liverpool bobby, promised to hand out "legitimate" news at daily conferences. Only other officers authorized to deal with newspapermen were Chief James E. Dew, whose bright red handlebar mustache has been nationally publicized on a Vox Pop radio program, and acting Inspector Sherman Lyons...
...Boston girls," says the article, "are creating a great fuss about this latest collegiate fancy. How would you like to have a man with a handlebar kiss you good-night?" asks the Post...
...restore the monarchy. Founded in 1822 by Dom Pedro I, son of Portugal's King Dom Juan VI whom Napoleon frightened into the New World, the Brazilian Empire lasted until an uprising of landowners and army in 1889 forced Dom Pedro II to resign. Today his grandson, handlebar-mustached, white-haired Dom Pedro, lives a guest of the Brazilian Government on his tax-free Gráo Palace at Petropolis, outside Rio. Young Dom Juan last week stoutly insisted he "was merely trying to join the excitement and got in the way of a bullet", but police...
Sixty-two years ago, in 1875, fifteen good Harvard men and true and one substitute invaded New Haven and licked the handlebar moustaches off the home team in the first Harvard-Yale football game in history. The gruelling contest lasted an hour and a half...
...Handlebar-mustached Senjuro Hayashi, leader of the "Gold Braid Cabinet" of generals and admirals which took office last January, was Japan's No. 1 exponent of military aggressiveness. In four short months the gold braids outraged the civilian party politicians, high-handedly suspended the Diet's lower house, forced an election, lost it but insisted on staying in office (TIME...