Word: newfangledness
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The day Queen Charlotte bought one of his cream-colored caudle sets (for warm drinks) Wedgwood's diligence began paying off. He got Charlotte's permission to call the line she liked "Queen's Fare" and to style himself "Potter to the Queen." Wedgwood hired the best...
Died. Reginald William Rives, 86, leading figure in the dying patrician sport of coaching, member of the Coaching Club since 1883; in Manhattan. Stubborn Socialite-Horseman Rives resisted vigorously as newfangled horseless carriages crowded coaches off the streets, won a 1906 lawsuit in which he charged that an auto had...
Hank Iba, basketball coach of the Oklahoma Aggies, is much too sly to be stampeded into using newfangled methods. When he takes his players to the big city, they play horse& -buggy basketball. There is no furious running or frantic shooting. Calmly and deliberately, they throttle the game down ; the...
After nine years, it was inevitable that there should be changes among the D'Oyly Carters: new faces; new but in no way newfangled scenery; an orchestra that seemed a bit lacking in volume and verve. But for the most part things remained wonderfully unchanged: this highborn troupe whose...
In his long and losing war with machines, modern man has devoted almost as much energy to damning newfangled contraptions as he has to inventing them. He has cursed the power loom, the steam locomotive, the Welsbach mantle, the airplane and the electric shaver with a vehemence calculated to deliver...