Word: handlebars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Capitano Volanis was a short man, but fierce, handlebar mustaches and shoulders like an ox's made him look ominous. Over 70, he could still clamber goatlike among the mountains of Crete, could still spring on a wild goat and throw it with his bare hands. That was why they called him "The Goat," this notorious leader of the out lawed Venizelists, who wanted no kings in Greece & Crete...
...never seen a Harvard man in tights," breathed a starry-eyed first year young lady at Radcliffe, when told that eight members of the Bicycle Racing Club were going to race high-wheelers in the Radcliffe quadrangle clad in tight gaiters, striped sweaters, derbies and handlebar moustaches tomorrow...